Word: zigzagging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...18th Congress (1939), on the eve of World War II, laid down a new zig in Russia's zigzag foreign policy. Stalin denounced the Western democracies for "urging Germany on to march farther East." Thus he foreshadowed his deal with the Nazis (the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact of August 1939), which helped unleash Hitler's invasion of Poland. Stalin told the delegates: "It is now a question of a new redivision of the world...
...saucers vary widely. Some are hazy globes; some are bright lights. Some are cigar-shaped, wingless "airplanes"; others are spinning disks. Some of the saucers fly singly; others in formation. They fly both by day and by night; they zigzag abruptly. It is obvious, concluded Menzel, that no single type of object, such as a novel aircraft, can be behind all the stories...
...along "about every 2,000 years." Reporters found that Lawsonomy was sweepingly billed as "the study of everything," based on 47 principles set forth in the dozens of books of which Lawson is the author. All life, according to Lawsonomy, operates according to the laws of "maneuverability, penetrability, and zigzag-and-swirl...
Cabbages and Kings, by O. Henry (Dec. 17, 1904): "There are times when the story puzzles in its zigzag course . . . but as it is one finds a joy in its very obscurity...
...fruits of the earth. Grouped around the cornstalk are eight gods and goddesses gathering healing pollen. On the north are the roundheaded earth gods, black and red, with white-coated, oblong-headed goddesses. On the south are blue and yellow water gods, with goddesses. Each god is laced with zigzag lightning, haloed with plumes of the red-tailed woodpecker, and armed with a bow and rattle...