Word: zinged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...barber in Brooklyn's Little Italy, Fischetti derived the title of his 1973 autobiography, Zinga, Zinga, Zal, from a cousin, who used the phrase to answer virtually all questions. "For me," wrote Fischetti, "the point of a political cartoonist is to take some of the zing out of the zinga, zinga...
...what he didn't count on was the play of a few newcomers. These guys weren't freshmen, so Ford might have been able to predict their contribution to the team. "John Lyons, Richard Berkman, Lance Ayrault, and Leighton Welch gave the program a zing, they were very gung ho. That in itself was a surprise. But I didn't think those four would make the step up and do so well," Ford said. Even off the field it was apparent that they were live wires...