Word: zapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Zap, the New Right meets the New Left...
...ZAP, or WAX, also onomatope, means to clobber...
Twitchedy, twatchedy, flippedy, flappedy, flong your own thong tong, snickety poo. Griff, graff, gobble, gobble, ghrrr, gar, gorrr, goo goo goo. Wap, wap, flaptrap, wonk wonk weee. Zap, zap, backtrack, zonk zonk zeee. Wish I may, wish I might have the wish I wish tonight...
...first, many thought the darkness came from within. A middle-aged executive who had been playing a too-vigorous game of basketball wondered if the fading light before his eyes signaled a massive coronary. A waiter who had just been inoculated against hay fever had a moment of terror. "Zap!" he thought. "Wrong vaccine." In Manhattan, a Negro maid looked out the window, told her employer to come on over and see "all the lights going out in tribute to Dorothy Kilgallen...
...Airborne troops dropped in grenades which yielded four dead. Was that the name of the game? Hardly. For the most part, Ben Cat was like the sergeant "You go out on patrol maybe twenty times or more and nothin', just nothin'. Then, the twenty-first time, zap, zap, zap, you get hit-and Victor Charlie fades into the jungle before you can close with him." Frustrating as it was for the men slogging through the mud and rain, Ben Cat was a job that had to be done: in the burgeoning role of the U.S. in Viet...