Word: zigzags
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Following centuries-old tribal custom, the family called in a nidilniihi, a diagnostician who works by hand-trembling-but they fetched her in their own 1953 Chevrolet sedan. Diagnostician Emma Teller squatted at Mary's bedside, dusted corn pollen on her upturned right palm, made the zigzag lightning sign with her left forefinger and crooned a ritual chant. As she passed her hand over Mary's body, it began to tremble. From its motion (ni'dilniih) Emma concluded that Mary had somehow offended the Wind Spirits. Her prescription: a chishiji, a two-day sing...
...sewing machines, the payoff on quality was never better demonstrated than by Fukoku Machine Co. In the last several years it has taken the lion's share of a $21 million U.S. market for Japanese sewing-machine heads, is swamped with U.S. orders for a new zigzag machine head despite the fact that its price is considerably greater than that of rival companies...
...fantastic gimmicks to bewitch children. Items: a magic carpet so aerodynamically proper that it would not fly when overloaded, a boy genie (his father was in the bathtub) who spun into view from nowhere when Abu rubbed the magic lamp. As the gallant hero battling his way along the zigzag road to Samarkand, young (23) Kashmir-born Kuldip Singh was dashing and princely, sang with a mellow, Kuldipped voice that charmed tots as it has previously entranced bobby-soxers. Crooner Singh's career was launched in 1956, when he appeared on Groucho Marx's TV quiz show...
Fast Jet. In late December, says Namias, the waves in the planetary wind were feeble and lethargic. The wind blew almost due east across the U.S., and since its energy was not dissipated in zigzag waves, it blew unusually fast; the jet stream, its fast-moving core, was clocked at 170 m.p.h. But the mixing effect of the wind was almost nil. The Arctic kept its cold air and grew colder and colder as its heat radiated into space, while the U.S. stayed warm. The port of Green Bay, Wis. was open for navigation on Dec. 29, the first time...
...fighting went on. Washington's fear of touching off a "big war" enfeebled U.S. planning to the point where General Omar Bradley, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, crossed off an-expanded offensive as "the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time." Zigzag U.S. policy was further shaken by paying too much attention to allies, e.g., Britain and France, who had no basic strategic interest in Korea, opposed taking any risks, however minor, which might extend the war to Europe. Unprepared for limited war, "we thought we could not afford to win in Korea...