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Word: zipped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doesn't sass the captains. He's a good, red-blooded American boy." Buck taught his son to hunt and fish in the dense woods near by. Schoolmates of Counter Guerrilla Glide still recall how, when he was twelve, he converted a cap pistol into a zip gun and shot a deer, then dived into a river to wrestle it out and into the family larder. Glide Brown Jr. had no desire to spend his life in the pine flats "tim-timin' " (notching pine trees to collect the gum for turpentine). As soon as he graduated from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: Democracy in the Foxhole | 5/26/1967 | See Source »

Although we did it well, it is not us. Too ticky-tacky and rah-tata-ta. We are more clang, zip, boom. I think we're heavier--at least we're louder...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Alexander, | Title: The Jefferson Airplane Gets You There on Time | 5/15/1967 | See Source »

...does, however, have Beatrice Lillie. If you've ever seen Miss Lillie, you won't need any recommendations. If you haven't, zip down to the nearest record shop and spend your wad on a Lillie album...

Author: By Jaqmes M. Lardnerem, AT THE CIRCLE THEATRE FOREVER | Title: Thoroughly Modern Millie | 4/10/1967 | See Source »

...Zip Guns & Water Pipes. In the early years of the war, the Viet Cong relied on whatever they could get-ancient weapons left over from other Asian wars, captured American or South Vietnamese arms, even crude homemade zip guns. Rifles were fashioned out of old bicycle parts; a water pipe frequently became a mortar. Then Soviet and Red Chinese arms began trickling down the Ho Chi Minh trail, and the gradual buildup began. Lately, the buildup has intensified, bringing the Viet Cong an abundance of modern weapons and ammunition. "There is no longer anything ragtag, bobtail or worn out about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Enemy's Weapons | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

...participate in the travel groups take summer jobs in some area of public service, and if their salaries are in any way inadequate, the school will supplement them. Perhaps the most astonishing example of how the Woodrow Wilson School treats money is its pre-paid interview system. Applicants can zip down to Princeton to look the school over for a few days, and the school picks up the tab. That kind of money is obviously an attraction by itself: students vaguely interested in government can sooner see spending two lavish, aimless years studying politics than three rough, possibly costly, years...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: Political Prep School, Princeton Style: | 2/25/1967 | See Source »

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