Word: zippers
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...black felt head with the zipper eyes, the stuffed parrot on the hollow log that appeared at the Modern Museum are typical dadaist artifacts, incorrigibly senseless but regarded by their owners as good examples of a movement that still has vivid memories...
Cantor's innumerable operations have become almost a classic in Broadway prattle, and while Frenchy, his valet rubbed him down, many of the incisions, including the famous one with the zipper, could be seen. The star was resting between shows, but his flow of speech was unhalting. Audiences, actors, his own family, stage personalities--all were discussed by the comedian...
...lone pilot in the enclosed cockpit started down. Near exhaustion from the height, he began getting dizzy as the plane dived toward normal air, suddenly realized that not enough oxygen was flowing into his air-tight suit, that he was about to suffocate. Frantically he tried to open the zipper of his suit and the window of his plane. Failing, he used the last remnant of his strength to snatch a knife from the wall, slit open his helmet, gulp the air that rushed...
...under the flexible tariff law to boost the duty on zippers, thereby pleasing two loyal Democratic Senators, Guffey of Pennsylvania and Lonergan of Connecticut, who have in their constituencies the two big U. S. zipper makers...
...familiar joke about the woman who went through so many operations that she asked for a zipper closure last week seemed about to become a reality. A Chicago man was having his abdomen kept open for weeks to permit surgeons gradually to cauterize a cancer in his stomach. Surgeons sewed the edges of the slit stomach to the edges of the slit abdomen. Then they fastened a section of zipper along each edge of the compound slit by means of adhesive tape. Now to close the abdominal hole until time for the next cauterization, the operator simply pulls the zipper...