Word: flipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indignant letter to the Worker ran: "[You] have followed successive flip-flops with amazing jolt-proof gymnastic dexterity, without ever being at a loss for editorial words. The doctors were plotting, the doctors were not; Beria was in, Beria was out; Tito was out, Tito was in; Yugoslavia was a dictatorship with ruthless suppression of opposition, Yugoslavia is finding its independent path to socialism; Stalin is up, Stalin is down . . . The Daily Worker editors had carved out a position even more unassailable than the Soviet leaders have claimed for them selves. The Soviet leaders admitted to previous mistakes. The Daily...
Once in a House, the student's status in not yet fully determined. Each House has approximately 40 rooms in Claverly or, this year, Wigglesworth. The assignment to these dormitories is made largely by the "flip-of-a-coin" method, except that consideration must be made for the type of room requested. If a House had no quadruple rooms, while Wigglesworth was a large number of them, people applying for quadruples in that House will live in Wigglesworth and maintain an "affiliation" with their House...
...have been various accounts, not to mention bitter criticism, of the manner in which a CRIMSON editor reviews a movie or play. Although he claims he has no clearly defined technique, several have been suggested. Among these are the rotation plan (pan a few, praise a few), the coin flip method, a mood creation (verdict depending upon the mood of the moment), and the "how many free passes did they give" determination. Another system which is not fully appreciated is listed below. With the aid of these lists, the reviewer simply picks the words which seem to fit...or just...
...decisions, in a flip-flopping score-um-up at the 147 class, Captain Phil Burnaman managed his second win of the season and just missed his second pin, outpointing M.I.T.'s Hyman, 14 to 10. Burnaman's victory method stood in sharp contrast with that of the other three who won on points...
Everyone gives and takes in good spirit. Even Leo, after his partner stumbled and plummeted into his mid-section, gasped, "If they don't get you one way, it's another." Another victim crawled across the floor soothing his back after an unsuccessful flip, when his partner asked, "Did I hurt you?" Once of the younger pupils was unserved by a misplaced heel. "He got my middle toe!" he cried, while the instructor explained that although Nishimoto style is not so gentlemanly as jujitsu, neither is it "rough like judo...