Word: zip
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Massachusetts-Harvard: UMass is strong but Harvard is stronger except in one vital area -- the defensive backfield. Peil Pennington vs. the Team Canada secondary. All roads begin construction today. Can the Crimson do it? Well I bet--Harvard over UMass 14-zip...
...Even the zip of the McGovern campaign has diminished over a summer in which the Democratic nominee lost the momentum of nomination in a staggering series of tactical blunders. McGovern organizers hesitate to give specific numbers of workers because they are still measuring the losses of the summer...
...flair for the old-fashioned bravura style and a staggering technique to put it across, he is a one-man tidal wave of sound. His hands can hammer out octaves with machine-gun speed and force. He can pounce on flawless trills from a three-foot distance. He can zip off glissandi in octaves and double notes that would tear the fingernails of many pianists. Occasionally, when he decides to program a piece that demands it, he can even play sweetly and with charm...
...eluding pursuers. After throwing the hides out of his pickup truck as a posse closed in, he dove into a Louisiana bayou, swam across the border to Texas and holed up there for six months before being captured. Another, who is now serving a long jail sentence, used to zip across the swamps in a shallow boat that could reach speeds of 85 m.p.h...
...great and loose and easy, there is so much to see from the car window, baking, gleaming out there, that the driving, the perpetual motion, takes over. Get a good cigar, flip on the air conditioner and the FM radio, shut out the world with your windows and zip on down the freeway lulled by Carmen McRae, by the air whistling to get out the window crack, by the distant hum of the tires, zip past the palms and the houses at a standstill in the sun and float on the air on your shocks, free, rootless, just going-like...