Word: zinging
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...rebellious tin miners, stood guard over them in a shabby union hall at the 14,000-ft.-high Siglo Veinte mine, 135 miles from La Paz. The women cradled tommy guns and tucked dynamite caps beneath their bulging petticoats. On the floor below, just a bullet's zing through the wooden boards should fighting break out, 50 cases of dynamite were stored...
Plenty of Zing. While the farmers were still thumping each other's backs, a spotlight picked up the evening's star performer, striding down a side aisle. The organ abruptly switched to that old Democratic anthem, Happy Days Are Here Again, and onto the stage bounded Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman. The farmers cheered, whistled and clapped...
...aware of the benefits they derive from your success." He gave himself some too: "I am pleased that we have made real progress in the last two years." What he said was the familiar fodder of New Frontier farm speeches, but he said it with plenty of oratorical zing, and his audience interrupted 24 times with applause...
...scrutiny grew out of concern about the sluggishness of the U.S. economy. The economy's recovery from the 1957-58 recession was distinctly lacking in zing. Unemployment remained worrisomely high, and in Election Year 1960 signs of a new recession were gathering. "Growth" became a central issue in the campaign. Again in 1961-62, the recovery was faint and hesitant...
...deal more raspberry and more silky than when seen in the golden context of a June day. But even with the inherent glamour that comes with trekking out in storm boots to buy clothes fit for sea and shore, this year's selection has an added bit of zing...