Word: zinged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...closed doors. One set of ideas (Nourse's) called for allocation of scarce commodities, such as steel and grain; curbs on installment buying; curbs on speculation in the commodity exchanges; tightening of bank credit. Such fiscal reforms might help a little but they certainly had no political zing. The only other idea was the reimposition of rationing and price control, which Harry Truman recently described as manifestations of a police state. But in their extremity that was exactly what Democratic politicos were suggesting. The tactic was politically sound: put the measure up to the 80th Congress...
...noise became more & more insistent, began to sound like the busy signal on a dial telephone. Brennke halted, straightened up, took off the headphones to see what was wrong with them-and instantly dived into the roadside ditch. The odd sound was the zing of German bullets going past Brennke's head...
...Franklin Roosevelt made Norman Littell, a fresh-faced, 40-year-old Seattle lawyer, Assistant Attorney General of the U.S. A passionate crusader for good government, young Norman Littell tackled his job with zeal and zing. But he never quite hit it off with his immediate boss, Attorney General Francis Biddle. Worse still, zealous Lawyer Littell got into the habit of denouncing Washington bungling in public. His zeal finally got on the nerves of a formidable array of Old New Dealers, including Harold Ickes, Jesse Jones, Francis Biddle and Tommy ("The Cork") Corcoran, ex-brain-truster turned lawyer-lobbyist...
...executives snap into line, and that teams of writers and researchers then proceed-with a precision that would make the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes look like an awkward squad-to produce that exact story down to the last semicolon. In short, put idea in slot, pull lever and zing-next thing you know a million copies are all over every place...
...Dutch, U.S., British, Swedish, German and Italian rifles, pistols and machine guns, the Dutch ordnance men had made much out of little. They juggled rifle parts to fit their ammunition supply. For armored cars, they walled trucks with double sheets of boiler plate. The first layer took the zing out of armor-piercing bullets, the second stopped them. The improvised cars with their mounted machine guns roared over the narrow, metalized Java highways, barking at advance parties of Jap bicyclists and rushing defenders to threatened points...