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Word: zapping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contemplates. U.S. military planners remain haunted by the frightening possibility that the Russians have actually developed a technique that will come up to Khrushchev's boast that a Russian rocket could "hit a fly" in outer space. Rumors have circulated in Washington about Russian "Xray defense" and "zap" effects of nuclear explosions far bigger than those involved in the Nike-X system-explosions that would effectively clear the skies of most, if not all, U.S. ICBMs, no matter how many were launched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Deterrence By Anti-Missiles: Examining the Proposition That World Peace Can Be Maintained Only by Extreme Escalation | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

...Zap . . . Zap . . . Zapping the Cong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stage: Voices of Protest | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

...Zap . . . Zap . . . Zapping the Cong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stage: Voices of Protest | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

...Holy suffocation! A year between Barbra's shows filled with hours of operating rooms, court rooms, bar rooms, Batmobiles. Deliver me from the whop, smack and zap in the bat cave and let me suffocate in such appalling overcuteness as Barbra. If that hour of greatness was a myth, spare me the realities of "My Mother the Car," my wife the witch, my father the fugitive, and your reviews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 22, 1966 | 4/22/1966 | See Source »

...went out to zap the A.R.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE PURPLE HEART BOOGIE | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

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