Word: zipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fighting started in the streets, spread to vast Prospect Park, while hundreds of picnickers ducked for safety. Before the cops broke up the war, two boys had been wounded by bullets from a homemade .22-caliber "zip gun" and a third had been shot by a .32 revolver...
South Amboy, N.J. (pop. 9,500), a minor port on the southern arm of vast New York Harbor, is the kind of nondescript town through which most travelers pass on the way to somewhere else. Manhattan vacationists zip past on the way to seaside villages and resorts. Commuters on the Pennsylvania's gritty Jersey Shore line spend five minutes there every trip, buried in their newspapers or staring glumly at a shabby luncheonette across from a tavern while the electric engine is changed for a steam locomotive. Sprawled along the estuary of the Raritan River, just across...
Passing Fancy. But unerringly guided by Arcaro, Hill Prince threaded through the opposition with the zip of a motorcycle in a traffic jam, won by better than a length going away. Among the horses he passed in the closing drive: Derby hopefuls Casemate and Guillotine (winner of. last year's Futurity Stakes-TIME...
Like the turtle, the bureaucrat, hunched up within the comfortable armor plate of civil-service regulations, seldom moves at a pace faster than a lumbering lurch. But head, neck and unwinking eye can zip out with wondrous speed-to snap at a taxpayer, look out a window at a parade, or sip a slow cup of coffee at the nearest Government cafeteria. Last week the Senate heard another little-noted fact about his living habits: he can, and frequently does, enjoy the equivalent of about ten weeks of paid vacation a year...
...Does It. Scientists have long known that a fusion reaction takes place in the sun. Deep under the white-hot surface, the temperature stands at something like 20 million degrees centigrade. Under such extreme conditions all atomic particles are in violent motion. The nuclei of ordinary hydrogen (single protons) zip around with enormous speed. They jostle one another and slam against other nuclei -smashing some and joining others. A complex chain of reactions takes place involving carbon and nitrogen, but the final result is the fusion of hydrogen into helium...