Word: zippering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...highways & byways of the Western Hemisphere. He crisscrossed the continent 35 times, wore out three automobiles. He wrote about anything that took his fancy: soap, dogs, doctors, the art of rolling a cigaret, hotel bellhops, hotel rooms, how to build a picket fence, his troubles with a stuck zipper in his pants. He went to Alaska and wrote about being shaved by a woman barber in the mining camp of Platinum, near the Arctic Circle. He went to Molokai and wrote about the lepers. He flew around South America. And for most of the five years he worried...
...Strenuous Life. In Wilbur, Wash., the spinning rod of a reaper caught Rancher Walter Wynhoff by the overalls, gave him a spin, tossed him aside wearing only his shoes and eyeglasses. In an Army maneuver area in Tennessee, a bolt of lightning struck the zipper of a sleeping bag, welded it all the way around, sealed up a soldier inside, uninjured...
...clock, it came again. The deck plates rattled as a pattern of depth charges thundered in the Spencer's wake. But the tension was less than during the attack in darkness. Daylight seldom yields much in the battle against submarines. In their sea-stained zipper jackets and dungarees, Coast Guardsmen joked and talked about their next shore leave...
...Wheeler declared: "There is far too much pending now to permit anyone to stop and ponder anything like the name for this war. Moreover it is far better to wait until it is over. Then it can be more appropriately named." Snapped Senator Robert Taft: "I am no zipper...
...stepped aboard a boat. With him were slim, brunette Jean Faircloth MacArthur; their son, Arthur, clothed in the dignity of his four years, a blue zipper jacket, khaki trousers and a khaki forage cap; the boy's hovering Chinese nurse, Ah Ju, who among other things had taught him to speak with an English accent. With them, on this and a second boat, were some of the staff officers who were to accompany General MacArthur to Australia. In a hidden inlet on Bataan, behind the U.S. lines, Major General Hugh Casey of the Engineers led the rest...