Word: zipped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Reapers. Each clique has from 20 to 50 members ruled by a president, vice president and warlord. Their "colors," elaborate coats-of-arms stitched to the backs of their denim jackets, depict bloody skeletons and skulls, fire and lightning. Their arsenals include not only clubs, chains, knives and zip guns but also Molotov cocktails, rifles, shotguns and, say youth workers, hand grenades and machine guns...
Should a pianist be paid more if he manages to zip through a concert in half the usual time? The answer, obviously, is no, but the question is not as silly as it sounds. The pay increases that the Government allows during Phase II are supposed to be tied largely to productivity -the value of output per man-hour...
...California Democrat John Tunney: "It's become a stylized dance-almost like Kabuki." Eagleton ruefully admitted: "To many of our colleagues our arguments are old hat. There's a tendency to sit back and say, 'Well, here we go again.' The issue has lost its zip...
...bolstered by the bumbling response that officials made to Dr. Edland's finding. At first they denied the medical examiner's report; then Oswald wearily admitted that the throat-slashing reports were erroneous. Other spokesmen tried to suggest that the deaths were really the prisoners' fault, claiming homemade zip guns had been found in the compound. Rockefeller finally said flatly that the hostages "had died in the crossfire." He insisted, though, that the attack was "morally justified" and that there had been no "indiscriminate shooting...
...handled by local post offices. Instead of postmarking a letter with the name of the town where it was mailed, the AMP machines simply stamp envelopes with the phrase "U.S. Postal Service," followed by an abbreviation of the state and the first three digits of the area's zip code...