Word: flips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Flip-flop:" the Random House definition reads, "a sudden or unexpected reversal, as of direction, belief, attitude or policy...
...opposition," it uses by way of example, "claimed that the president had flip-flopped on certain issues...
...perhaps the greatest flip-flop-flip-agains in political history, Texas billionaire Rose Perot re-entered the race for the presidency. As an undeclared candidate, Perot led in the polls consistently until his "grassroots" movements hit the brick wall...
...Perot himself is nothing more than a walking bundle of contradictions and flip flops," moans Associate Professor of Government Mark A. Peterson, who teaches a course in the American presidency...
...there is something more precious about a genuine, lips-twitching, mouth-frothing, nosegrowing flip-flop. Real flip-flops have a depth of irony and lunacy that make them unusual. They throw journalists, who never satisfy the urge to communicate the two-faced nature of politics, into a frenzy...