Word: zapped
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...doesn't beep, bleep, buzz or zap. It is played on a simple 20-in. by 20-in. multicolored board with a wheel-shaped pattern. Any number from two to 24 players ask each other questions drawn from 1,000 cards; a correct answer allows the player to move. Hardly Dragon's Lair but with a price tag as high as $40 in the U.S., it is indisputably a Boardwalk of board games...
...tale of the gender zap...
...watch for the telltale signs of your child's deg-re-day. Does he look like a glassy-eyed zombie? Are her little fingers forever twitching? Are those lunch-money quarters disappearing into the black hole of pleasure? Does he tell you he's going to zap you right into hyperspace? If so, friends, ya got trouble, right here in River City. Trouble with a capital T, and that rhymes with V, and that stands for video games...
...five ships uplifts into live new ones. Now there are 25 ships pledged to you destruction. The number of missiles hasn't changed--each new ship has only one--but you can't hit them all at once. Even if you try, enough will be left over to zap you. What do you do now? Whatever you do, you won't be tempted to attack, simply because you can't be sure of blasting all your enemy's ships at once...
Many women were outraged. "Extremely distasteful," wrote Dr. Anne L. Barlow, president of the American Medical Women's Association, in a letter protesting the ad about the woman doctor. In 1981 and 1982, the New York City-based Women Against Pornography gave the Maidenform ads a ZAP award for sexist advertising...