Word: zap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...magazine experience, Felker is no stranger to New York newspapering. Before the old World Journal Tribune died in 1967, leaving the afternoon field to the Post, he was hired to help liven up the paper. Felker bridles at suggestions that he took the Tonight job so he could "zap Murdoch." He says he just wants to put out a solid afternoon paper "for people who have been in a news vacuum...
...first annual report for young people slides through the firm's activities with the grace of a skateboarder. In order to explain the function of the company's fiscal year, the report says: "Imagine that you pointed a paralyzing ray gun at Ashland last September 30 and-ZAP!!-brought all our operations to a complete standstill everywhere...