Word: zig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...freakish hit of one of the submarine's projectiles. Freakish too was the escape of the Rightist sea-raiding cruiser Almirante Cervera. She was caught by a Leftist air squadron which rained some 20 bombs, some so close that spray from their splashes spattered her decks, but zig-zagging frantically she opened up with her anti-aircraft batteries, escaped...
...campaign, he dated himself up for a series of speeches that would take him from the Statue of Liberty to his polling place at Hyde Park by way of Wilkes-Barre. Harrisburg, Camden, Wilmington, Washington, Brooklyn. Madison Square Garden and a microphone in Poughkeepsie. Only sense in this zig-zag itinerary was that it would take him through a maximum number of places where the New Deal needed votes...
Last week Republican National Chairman John Hamilton, accompanied by a dozen assistants and reporters, boarded a chartered plane in Chicago, set out on a twelve-day trip through 16 States west of the Mississippi. Like a swiftly moving piece upon a checkerboard, the plane zig-zagged across Minnesota, the Dakotas, Montana, Colorado, Wyoming and settled down one afternoon last week at Salt Lake City.* Thus the campaign manager of the Presidential nominee who had declared for a sound currency "convertible into gold" arrived in the heart of the silver country...
Over New Toronto, Ontario, late one night last week, an airplane zig-zagged back & forth to the mild alarm of townsmen, who feared the pilot was lost. Much greater would have been their alarm if they had known that inside the lurching plane its pilot and his one small assistant were desperately fending off the attack of a bull-strong U. S. baseball player who had suddenly become a growling, biting sadist...
...Carnival's backbone. A Floridian who learned to ski in Germany, considered by Dartmouth's grizzled Coach Otto Schniebs the best amateur downhill skier in the U. S., Durrance won the downhill race-a precipitous mile down a mountain slide-in 58.8 seconds. In the slalom-zig-zag down a course outlined by pennants in the snow -he wasted three seconds going back to round a marker he had missed, and finished third. At jumping, judges thought his teammate Henry S. Woods showed a shade better style. When it looked as if Dartmouth would win its own carnival...