Word: flipped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...baggy Brooks Brothers suits and gay cravats, he could charm Chicago hostesses when he wanted to. But he was also irrepressibly flip. Asked what he thought of Yale, he replied: "Compared to Chicago, Yale is a boy's finishing school." Asked what he thought of Chicago, he said: "The faculty does not amount to much, but the president and the students are wonderful." When he prepared to testify before a committee of the Illinois legislature (after Drugstore Tycoon Charles Walgreen had charged that his niece was being taught Communism at the university), Trustee Laird Bell offered to pay Hutchins...
...case the result of this contest is just about as unpredictable as the fall of the half-dollar they'll flip at midfield at 1:45 p.m. This is more than a mere football game they play today; it's a matter of institutional honor
Resourceful U.S. domestic wildcats had found another way to get around CAB regulations. By keeping their flights entirely within the borders of one state, they could flip their tails at CAB. In California, six wildcats flew between Los Angeles and San Francisco for $9.95-less than half the fare charged by United, American and four other certified carriers...
...last Lampoon of the year is now out on the stands and a quick flip-through will give the prospective buyer the best that the magazine has to offer: its cartoons. There are two or three in the current issue which could conceivably appear in "The New Yorker" during its annual mid-summer slump and one, entitled "La Mouche," is probably the best the Lampoon has printed this year...
...wanted to speed or crawl as the spirit moved him; to read new Burma-Shave signs, flip cigarettes at rural mail boxes, or park and fall into a stupor with the sun on his neck." . . . Even before Maine's catastrophic forest fires of 1947, Maine, with most other states, was trying to educate people and discourage them from throwing live ashes from automobiles or other moving vehicles. TIME, instead of condoning this criminal practice of flipping cigarette butts as an amusing sport, should . . . point out the dangers of such carelessness...