Word: unzipping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crick walked into the Eagle pub in Cambridge, England, and, as James Watson later recalled, announced that "we had found the secret of life." Actually, they had. That morning, Watson and Crick had figured out the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA. And that structure--a "double helix" that can "unzip" to make copies of itself--confirmed suspicions that DNA carries life's hereditary information...
Clinton may be the winner in the dismissal of the Paula Jones sexual-harassment lawsuit [NATION, April 13], but the judge's decision has set back the women's movement 50 years. Now any boss can ask a woman to come into his office, close the door, unzip his pants and ask her to perform oral sex. Even if she refuses and leaves, she can no longer claim outrage in a court of law. Unless this ruling is reversed, women in the workplace had better not go into the boss's office without a witness. If Clinton can get away...
...call my friend O., who has agreed to help me out. She's not home, so I assume that she's on her way already, and I leave the door unlocked. Kicking off my shoes, I fast-forward to track 20 on the Hair CD ("Be-In") and unzip my jeans. When O. Walks in, I'm standing in my boxer briefs by the bathroom sink, holding cartons of body paint in both hands and wearing a sly grin. She crouches down behind me and whips out a paintbrush. I hike up my underwear, and she starts to work, applying...
Elsewhere, analysts talk less ebulliently of a we-survived psychology. But it amounts to the same thing: a feeling that the recession is far enough in the past that the threat to people who have hung onto their jobs is over; they can unzip their wallets. Richard Outcalt, president of Seattle-based Outcalt & Johnson Retail Strategists, puts it simply: "There's strong evidence now that the gloom and doom is dead. It just got boring." In New York City, Nancy Few-Smith, a former vice president of New York Telephone who describes herself as a part-time travel agent...
...something's wrong; suddenly the line isn't moving. Prim spots the problem right away: He's looking at that sixth person, the one who's stopped the flow of traffic as he struggles to unzip a weighty backpack...