Word: zinged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from Italy. Henry Ford and his colleagues are in a mood for celebration. This week Bob Hope will zing his one-liners in the hotel's vast Renaissance Ballroom at a $300-per-couple dinner to benefit the Detroit Symphony. One guest will be Elio Gabbuggiani, mayor of Detroit's "sister city" of Florence, Italy, who was initially refused a visa by U.S. authorities because he is a Communist. With the mayor comes a loan of the priceless bronze Boy with a Dolphin by Renaissance Sculptor Andrea del Verrocchio. The Detroiters had thought that they had the loan...
Wherever she goes, Lily Tomlin takes her notebooks. And wherever she goes, she writes the maxims that zing through her act like ricocheting bullets. A sampler...
...Washington fixture since the Johnson days who is currently co-host of CBS-TV's new Who's Who show. Lately she and Gerald Rafshoon, the Atlanta adman who worked for Carter during the campaign, have been a number. Howar expects the Georgians to bring some needed zing to the capital. Says she: "It's a frontier town again, and that's Washington at its best." Still another potential survivor is blonde Page Lee Hufty, 29, a member of an old moneyed family, who paints, rides, plays tennis and is one of the most eligible bachelor...
...thinking now. What do you say to this? If just every once in a while, if we'd throw in a few little terms, just little things like, uh, 'Drive the car that He'd drive!'--and you know, you don't have to lay it on, just zing it in there once in a while and then jump maybe to the Philistines...
...dollar has also lost some of its zing because of a policy switch by the oil-producing countries. Until recently, the oil nations received and invested nearly all of their oil revenues in dollars and British pounds; lately, they have begun to spread out and funnel more of their receipts into other currencies, notably the Swiss franc. Alarmed at a sudden and disruptive surge in demand for Swiss francs from nervous outsiders eager to unload dollar holdings, the Berne government took steps to stop the surge. Nonresident foreigners will have to pay 3% quarterly penalties on new bank deposits...