Word: zag
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Diamond Trophy races, sub-zero temperatures had turned the Mount Van Hoevenberg course so hard and slick that the sleds' runners would not bite into the ice, tended to slip sideways on the turns. Conditions were particularly bad at the 13th and 14th turns-known as the Zig-Zag -where a wooden superstructure was installed to keep the careening sleds from shooting right over the banking. As the four-man competition got under way, a U.S. sled overturned at the Zig-Zag, injuring two of the crew. At that, the wife of the next competitor in line, Lake Placid...
...Zag & Two Zigs. Yet to everyone's amazement, Coach Tom Landry tore up his whole offense two weeks before the season started and rebuilt it around Bob Hayes. Bad hands, eh? Against the New York Giants, Hayes pulled in a wobbly screen pass from Quarterback Don Meredith and ran 45 yds. for a touchdown. Dallas won the game...
...Zag. The two patrolling destroyers were carrying special electronic "hearing" equipment; because of the ships' sensitive, U-2-like role, the Pentagon was unwilling to release their names. Early in the evening of Sept. 18, the destroyers picked up the four skunks, found them to be moving at speeds of around 40 knots-too fast to be anything but torpedo boats. The destroyers increased their own speed to 30 knots, began running a zigzag course, and kept their narrow sterns to the approaching blips...
...four pursuers shadowed the destroyers, matching them zig for zag. At a range of 11,000 yards-5½ nautical miles-the destroyer captains decided that the pursuers were "hostile," opened fire with their radar-controlled 5-in. guns, although they still could not see their targets by eye. Why did they begin shooting at such a great distance? After the first Tonkin incident, when the U.S.S. Maddox sank one of three at tacking torpedo boats, President Johnson had been scornful of the lone destroyer's marksmanship, so this time the skippers wanted to get in as many ranging...
Ideally, the economists want to spot a zig or a zag in the graphs that may mark the beginning of a trend. They now recognize that there are a few such signs that indicate an impending recession well in advance of an actual downturn. Like the blips on a DEW-line monitor, these signals are only warnings of impending crisis; they are not recessionary in themselves. The chief harbingers...