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Word: flips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just three years ago when he put his name to a withering attack on Roe written by Chief Justice William Rehnquist and joined by Antonin Scalia, the court's right-wing philosopher-bulldog. At an end-of-term party last week, ) the court clerks gently ribbed Kennedy for legal flip-flops by performing the theme song from the old TV series Flipper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Court | 7/13/1992 | See Source »

...flip side of Thomas' courtroom activism is his almost cloistered personal life. Friends say the Anita Hill episode left him "shattered" and "guarded," leading him to shun public appearances. He is now instinctively so averse to the press, they say, that he's no longer much of a newspaper reader. "An experience like that leaves scars," says a friend. "Clarence and his wife have both had to go through a healing process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judging Thomas | 7/13/1992 | See Source »

...Weather vane" commercials, attacking an opponent's flip-flops, are a decades-old staple. Goldwater had changed his mind on a range of issues; Nixon said the same of George McGovern in 1972; and everyone this year will strike at his opponents' waverings -- and probably over the same issue, taxes, where all three have bobbed and weaved at one time or another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest: On TV, It's All d?j? vu | 7/13/1992 | See Source »

...favorite thing Trevor does is when he starts skating pretty slow and then smashes into the curb and uses the momentum from the crash to do a front flip and lands back where he was," says a wide-eyed Aurora Lucia, 11, who often sees the team practicing where she skates...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BLADES, SWEAT AND TEARS | 7/3/1992 | See Source »

...fall-term regimen of 18.02 et al., on the other hand, didn't flip any emotional switches. And when my half-hearted commitment to the hard sciences began to look even paler in comparison with the devotion professed by those made orgasmic by "multivariable calculus proper," and when I decided in early November that engineering sucked, I found myself in a bind...

Author: By Dante E.A. Ramos, | Title: I Went to MIT My First Year--And Lived! | 7/3/1992 | See Source »

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