Word: zipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vegetables come from hydroponic (water culture) farms run by the U.S. Army in Japan. The Air Force started its vegetable runs before the Korean war was a month old, by last week had shipped 500,000 lbs. of produce to Korea. A favorite G.I. item: onions, which give a zip to meat rations...
...first four rounds Williams fought with the assurance of a champion, deftly blocking Carter's bullish charges, jabbing and stabbing with lefts, uppercutting swift rights. But for all Williams' style, the blows bounced off dogged Jimmy Carter like pingpong balls. The Ike Williams zip, which had stiffened nearly half of his 137 opponents, was gone...
...London, half a dozen able staffers-most of them stout Socialists-have also quit, as fed up as Editor Chapman. Said Gordon Boshell, who had been hired to pep up the Herald's dreary feature page but left to freelance: "The paper doesn't want zip and it doesn't want brains. As a result, it's a dreadful hodgepodge of the mediocre...
...most U.S. motorists, hot-rodders are a breed of nerveless nuisances who zip their noisy jalopies in & out of traffic with uncanny skill. But to two young Hollywood publicity men, Robert Lindsay, 27, and Robert ("Pete") Petersen, 24, hot-rodders seemed to be a custom-made target for a new magazine...
...probably have been wondering why we forgot to give you sleeping bags. O.K., I'll tell you. You don't sleep at night up here. Get that? You'll have no sleeping bags. We got them, but we shipped them back. Those things are death traps. Zip yourself up in one and what happens? Some Chink slips in and slits your throat while you're trying to uncorset yourself...