Word: zinged
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...full of zing. She shakes with rhythm. Her dark eyes shine with irreverence in a pretty face of high cheekbones with a firm chin. She is a Negro girl who could be Johnny Mathis' little sister...
...forbid that I should ever commit myself to a "retirement" city. Granted that my bones will creak, my hair will grey, but to cut myself off from the swingy zing of the mainstream of life would really make...
...then the picture sends up a good line, like "I can see the tears forming in your wallet," and "What if a cobra bites you in a place you can't reach? That's when you find out who your real friends are." For auld lang zing, Dorothy Lamour puts in an appearance, boldly slinking around in a sarong and looking half her age. But for the most part, The Road to Hong Kong seems like a whoop-it-up college reunion held by the last two members of the class...
Totville, 1961. The Christmastide verse for the young is clean and scientific, but lacks the old-fashioned zing of the real thing. Poet Muriel Rukeyser's I Go Out (Harper; $2.95) makes a sort of go at it in verse about a day in the life of a city child...
...clever little rascal. The first time he saw a water tap he turned it on in a matter of seconds, and the first time he saw a zipper-zing! it was open before Maxwell could lift a finger. He quickly learned to trot around London on a leash, sniff at fireplugs, untie the tightest knot with his teeth, and sleep on his back with his arms outside the covers just as his master did. And whenever Maxwell overslept, Mij darted beneath the covers, ripped them loose and stole the pillow...