Word: zip
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...corps of boy and girl "cosmonauts" in jumpers and welders' helmets for the third season, as if to insist that they will really make it to the moon. His newest touch was wide, wide vinyl "space belts," which gird the torso from belly button to bosom bottom, zip up the back...
Pennsylvania, on the other hand, is a bottle of soda that was great when it was fresh (they won the League crown last year) but has lost its zip. The Quakers lost five games in a row until they stomped on already-dead Brown last Saturday, 84-60. The night before, they played their worst game of the year in dropping their Ivy League opener to Yale...
...also proved too much for more than 100,000 readers to resist. At the start of 1965, Ramparts' circulation stood at 15,000, which remakes the old point that sensationalism sells-at least for a while. Made up with zip and full of color photos, Ramparts avoids the drab look of most leftist magazines. And no other left-wing publication in the U.S. pursues shock more relentlessly or plays around more with fact. "We look at things from a moral point of view," explains Editor Warren Hinckle...
...billion pieces of holiday mail, an avalanche that subsides only gradually in the last hours of the old year. By diverting $30 million from next spring's budget, hiring temporary workers earlier than usual and winning a high degree of public cooperation - even the White House used ZIP codes on its Christmas cards - the Post Office managed to get by with only routine delays in most places. Much worse than a couple of weeks of slower deliveries, however, is the very real danger of having a "holiday hell" all year long. The Johnson Administration fears that the ever-growing...
...million, works out to one murder per 3,720 people; in Japan, the ratio is one murder per 44,190. Legally, Filipinos own more firearms (at least 300,000) than the entire military and police forces. Illegally, they pack 300,000 "loose" or unlicensed weapons, ranging from zip guns to submachine guns and antiaircraft cannon. The situation, says the Manila New Evening News, is "a stupefying travesty of what is supposed to be the majesty...