Word: zapping
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...Some men retorted, "No mother-fuckin" woman is going to tell us when we can trash or not." So they threw the bricks and scurried back to protect their women. But women's affinity groups didn't need protection, or the shit which trashers were bringing down on everybody. Zap. Who were the Chicago 7? Seven white middle-class males who had driven to leadership in various segments of the movement. Who was doing the trashing at TDA? Mostly white middle-class males...
President Nixon tosses, turns. The pantheon of the past retreats. Now it is 1971. From his Oval Office, Nixon sends to the Senate the nomination of a Mississippi judge for the Supreme Court. Zap! Confirmed. He asks $10 billion for an expanded ABM system. Pow! Appropriated. He proposes cuts in school funds. Chop! Done. In one corner of his dream stands a forlorn J. William Fulbright, talking while no one listens. With other prickly Democratic Sena'e oligarchs, Fulbright has been toppled by a Republican capture of the Senate. In a far recess of the Senate chamber, a vestigial cluster...
...officer trainee, Calley insists, he was never taught that he might encounter friendly Vietnamese. Instead, "it was drummed into us, 'Be sharp! Be on your guard! As soon as you think these people won't kill you-zap!' " When he first arrived in Viet Nam on Dec. 1, 1967, Calley felt "like the meanest, the most tremendous weapon there is. My rifle swung low. My helmet pulled down. I was scowling even. I felt this is my big day. And these are my men. And we're going to end this whole damned war tomorrow...
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...willingness to step in where many Angelenos fear to tread but for his ability to get away with it musically. In the peerless leader of the Mothers of Invention (TIME, Oct. 31), however, Mehta was taking on a man whose main goal in life seems to be to zap the musical establishment...