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...rods was automatic, controlled by a motor which could shoot it back into the pile when instruments warned that neutrons were getting too thick. Another (called "Zip") was attached to a heavy weight by a rope running over a pulley. When in the "withdrawn" position, it was tethered by another rope; a man with an ax stood ready to cut it free, send it zipping into the pile if anything went wrong. The last rod, marked in feet and inches, was to be worked by hand...
...Zip out!" ordered Fermi a few minutes later. Physicist Walter H. Zinn pulled out the Zip rod and tied it carefully. The counters clicked still faster. The graph pen moved up again...
...like hell. He has shaken up the top level of management, plans to shake it even more by bringing up young blood from within the company and from outside. Probable result: almost a whole new first team by summer's end, with the emphasis on youthful zip and the old school...
...week, a retrospective show of "Artists of the Philadelphia Press" opened in Philadelphia's Museum of Art. None of the few examples of war drawings had the static power of Winslow Homer's famed Civil War coverage for Harper's Weekly, nor the hell-for-leather zip of Hearst's Frederic Remington, but Glackens' Night after San Juan, which he drew while covering the Spanish-American War for the Press, was a topflight demonstration of vivid, accurate reporting. In the latter-day paintings, especially Shinn's The Hippodrome, Luks's The Spielers...
...Without Zip. Has Japan now a real urge for freedom and democracy, I asked. His spirited answer: "Oh, sure! The Army is gone [with a sweeping gesture]. The Potsdam Declaration promised to revive democracy in Japan-revive, not create. We are very glad. But Americans must not expect democracy here with American zip. What Americans do in one hour takes Japanese...