Word: zip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says Clarke, "I think Mr. Patterson would like the looks of the News." Its rivals think it has lost a lot of its old zip, but it still holds the loyalty of an awful lot of straphangers, and still boasts twice the circulation of any other paper...
WARREN SPAHN, at 40, knows as well as the batters that his once-adequate fast ball has lost its zip; and the power-packed Milwaukee Braves rarely hit well for him -they have given him just nine runs in four games this year. Still Spahn wins, and he sets some sort of record every time he does.* Fortnight ago, the hawk-nosed lefthander pitched a no-hitter, his second since last September, against the San Francisco Giants-a team that has been held hitless only three times since 1900. "Ridiculous," said Spahn afterward. "I go 15 years before...
...feasibility of such a plane, spelled out the desired quality of what he called "the monster." The new plane should cruise at Mach 3 (about 2,000 m.p.h.) at an altitude of 65,000 to 75,000 feet, fly from Los Angeles to New York in 74 minutes, and zip across the North Atlantic in less than two hours...
...Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency had just seen an eye-opening display of hardware-machete, zip guns, revolvers, assorted shivs-liberated from Manhattan's juvenile delinquents and brought to Washington by New York's Mayor Robert Wagner. Then Arthur J. Rogers, a New York City Youth Board official, took the witness chair to tell what really gets the city's juvenile gangs into trouble. The most explosive weapon in the delinquents' arsenal, said Rogers, is the female of the species...
...beer that might have made Moscow famous is a light, frothy brew called Zhiguli, which has long been touted as the perfect accompaniment for rak, a Russian crawfish. But for some time, Muscovites -and beer drinkers all over the U.S.S.R. -have noticed that their Zhiguli had lost its zip. Last week they knew why. Up for trial and denounced for his "criminally careless attitude" was V. P. Lisakov, director of Moscow's biggest brewery. The dark charge against Lisakov, Senior Brewmaster P. D. Kirichek, and eight other brewery officials: watering the Zhiguli...