Word: zinged
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...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...
...fence a weak team like this, you should smash them," Marion said. "There was no zing to our performance. It was all lead--there was no silver...
...Story) as well as standards by Dylan (Only a Hobo) and Elton John (Country Comfort). As a sometime member of the good-time British rock-'n'-roll band known as Faces, he is one superstar who is out mostly to have fun. That includes giving a humorous zing to his guitar playing, handing bottles of wine to lucky members of the audience, and place-kicking bright red soccer balls far beyond the footlights...