Word: zip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weekly staff meeting, a Cabinet meeting, a State Department dinner for the President of Ecuador, a string of office appointments. Through it all, he seldom looked tired. Whenever the pace began to wear, a quick pull at the department's rowing machine and a shower restored his zip...
...Maxwell Lewis Rafferty Jr., 45, who put most of the zip into the fight. The onetime superintendent of a couple of middle-sized school districts in Southern California, Rafferty ran against every lingering aspect of progressive education, often appearing on the platform with...
...expects something less. On one hand, he insisted that the recovery "has been a good one." and to bolster his point, cited a list of economic indicators at record levels. Then, in a tacit admission that he was just as disappointed in the economy's lack of zip as most businessmen, the President proceeded to promise that he would ask Congress for "an across-the-board reduction in personal and corporate income tax." effective...
...Dreamy Pines Motor Court, where two hoods called Sluggsy and Horror find Vivienne all alone in her black velvet toreador pants ("with the rather indecent gold zip down the seat"). They behave tastelessly ("Okay, Horror. Let her go. This is for me"). Enter, at long last, the man with the white scar on his left cheek. "I quickly put my hand up to hide my nakedness. Then he smiled and suddenly I thought I might be all right...
...Lively Zip Gun. Pole Vaulter Uelses, 24, was a virtual unknown-he had never cleared 15 ft.-when he showed up for last year's big winter meets. This year he is being courted by colleges (he gets out of the Marines next month), pursued by promoters, haunted by autograph hounds. His fan mail"runs to 300 letters a week. When he holds a press conference, his commanding general personally issues the invitations. But Uelses is a controversial champion. "I'm antagonistic as hell,'' snorted ex-Record Holder Bragg last week. "Uelses...