Word: zip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Fiok refused to lose his cool during the trial's first three weeks, the cons armed themselves with homemade zip guns, broke out of the county jail during the weekend, kidnaped a policeman, and wounded a guard. Recaptured within an hour, they brazenly demanded a mistrial on the ground of "prejudicial publicity." When that failed, Mayberry scorned the trial as "comic opera," called the prosecutor "Gilbert" and the judge "Sullivan." "If I can't get my rights legally," Langnes shouted at the judge, "I'll have to blow your head off. You understand that, punk...
With the new electronic devices, students will no longer be snubbed by passing elevators and will zip from floor to floor in half the time it takes now, he said...
...surely spotted, though, are some sorry lyrics: "There's a strange new world that you enter when you say 'I do, I do' Such a strange new world that you hardly can believe it's true, it's true." Just to add a little zip beyond cuing each other for songs, Martin and Preston have added a new bit of business: she plays a fiddle and he toots a saxophone in one number. The show is supposed to open on Broadway Dec. 5, three weeks behind schedule...
Johnson Blitz. Though surfeited with the sights and sounds of a kaleidoscopic journey that covered 31,000 miles-and, it seemed, as many handshakes-the President was ready to take off again. Having promised to stump all 50 states, Johnson plans to zip through 15 of them in four days to make good his word. He will dash from New England to the Midwest and the Northwest the first day, campaign along the West Coast the second, stop off in Utah, Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona...
Maybe you light a candle to find something familiar. You can't Rock is rock, but in a cave it assumes strange shapes -- hollow tubes or bursts of crystals. The fish in pools of water are eyeless and are nearly transparent. Brown bats, squeaking as they zip around you, are the most common animals. Often they carry rabies...