Word: zippering
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...parents walked in on him when he was trying on his black leather trench coat, with his sawed-off shotgun hidden underneath: "They didn't even know it was there." Once, Harris recalls, his mother saw him carrying a gym bags with a gun handle sticking out of the zipper. She assumed it was his BB gun. Every day Klebold and Harris went to school, sat in class, had lunch with their schoolmates, worked with their teachers and plotted their slaughter. People fell for every lie. "I could convince them that I'm going to climb Mount Everest...
This modernist feel was especially punctuated by guest conductor Christoph Eschenbach who donned a black (of course) collarless (priest?) buttonless (zipper?) shirt. Eschenbach's every motion was like clean staccato, a human metronome for the orchestra. And even special guest Midori's movements seemed strangely reminiscent of C3PO. The analogy should probably wisely end here...
...ZIPPER Invented in 1913 by Swedish immigrant Gideon Sundback at Universal Fastener Co. in Pennsylvania. B.F. Goodrich first used the word to refer to a fastener on a pair of its galoshes; it was not used in clothes until the 1930s. By 1941 zippers beat the pants off buttons in the Battle...
...seen that way. He has created for himself an unprecedented persona. We have always known him by his contradictions--the raging moderate, the compassionate realist, the hardheaded dreamer. But now Clinton emerges as something new: a feminist Lothario, a New Age Don Juan, Alan Alda with a zipper problem...
INSPIRATION According to p.r. material for two new novels, Random House's "Lucky Bastard is the...story of a gifted politician with dangerous friends and a zipper problem," while the Senator in Simon & Schuster's The Woody has "a history of having a 'zipper problem.'" Where do they think this stuff...