Word: zinging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Student demonstrations against the war in Viet Nam have not had much zing this fall, so the Harvard chapter of Students for a Democratic Society set out last week "to do something that would shock the college community out of its vicarious war weariness." Its mem bers managed to shock Harvard, all right -by breaking the university's tradition of rational discourse and outraging plenty of people elsewhere who share that scruple...
...Hanratty sent Fullback Larry Conjar crunching through the line for a pair of touchdowns in the first and second quarters. Then, his injured arm soothed with cortisone shots, Hanratty delivered the bomb that the Irish fans had come to see. Down the field full speed went Jim Seymour. Zing! Terry Hanratty shot a perfect pass against the wind for a 56-yd. touchdown. Jogging back to the bench, Hanratty grinned: "Sore arm, eh?" Before the bludgeoning was over, the score was 32-0, and Notre Dame students were parading through the stands with the banner...
Mantle's swing has lost its zing...
Fidel Castro: "The ground's a little wet today, eh?" Puff, puff. "I have a new cutting technique." Whack. Zing. Chonk. "First the lower part and then the upper part." Chop. Chonk...
...even Castro's constant companion Celia Sanchez. But it was Castro who set the pace. "Look how I do it," he instructed his interviewer. "I begin cutting from there to here, always protecting myself from the sun. My system is more rhythmic and more systematic." Chop. Thwack. Zing. Chonk...