Word: zigs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like Stalin, who also is no profound economist, Hitler pursues an economic course of zigs to the Right and zags to the Left. Last week the Great Zig-Zagger was zigging...
...Zig! He dropped demagogic, anti-capitalist Count Rüdiger von der Goltz from the post of Commissar of Economy to which he was appointed last July with impossible hopes that Count Rüdiger would make the Fatherland self-sufficient, "a pure autarchy...
...difficult by a wide divergence of opinion amongst the observers as to the actual appearance and flight of the blinding particle. Although the Observatory's Correspondents generally agreed that the flight was from north to south, a few believed that the meteor took other directions, notably northeast, and a "zig zag course". Estimates of the time the fireball was in the air yary from "not more than a second" to half a minute...
...Mars, and to this day its Buddhist priests look on Everest as the abode of potent gods. Not until 1920 was permission for a climb obtained from the Dalai Lama, religious and temporal monarch who ruled the bleak uplands from Lhasa. The first expedition spotted the rock shoulder zig-zagging down from the peak to the saddle which was later called the North Col, but wasted its time on a heart-breaking approach to the saddle before discovering the more feasible access from East Rongbuk Glacier...
...Switzerland for the last Winter Olympic Games. It is a deep trench winding like an ice-lined gutter down the mountainside. Sleds ordinarily reach a maximum speed of about 60 m. p. h., gathering speed by riding high on the banks of its three dangerous turns- Whiteface, Shady Corner, Zig-Zag. The Colgate sled went a little faster than that. When it reached the bottom-still intact despite the missing bolt-its time for four heats was 7:57.31, a new U. S. record. Steersman Colgate, son of the late Soapman Gilbert Colgate, learned bob-sled driving in Europe. Closest...