Word: zipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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 When in the "withdrawn" position, it was tethered by another rope; a man with an ax stood ready to cut it free, send it zipping into the pile if anything went wrong.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...
...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...
...Technical Service Command and by B. F. Goodrich Co. Designed for high-altitude flying, the electrically heated, pressurized suit could theoretically keep a man comfortable at 80,000 feet. The plastic bubble enclosing the head has oxygen for breathing, a microphone and earphones for communication. A man can zip himself into the suit in two minutes...