Word: zipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year, as the big engines splatted into life, the big word was not speed but acceleration. Since almost any new U.S. car can easily top 100 m.p.h., Detroit was interested in showing that its family cars also have the zip to whip away from a stop light and spin up to the legal speed limit in a minimum length of time...
Peace talks were not broken off. But they lacked the optimistic zip of yesterday's prestrike negotiations. The nation's top labor peacemaker, James F. Finnegan, national director of federal mediation, remarked...
This statistic may have been misleading. There are no zip gun wars here such as those in New York, and the crimes committed here are probably slightly less serious in nature. But the problem is simply this: a greater number of teenagers in this area seem to commit unlawful and anti-social acts than in any comparable area in the country...
Linemen Bob Owen and Bob McVey will be the starting blue-line pair as part of a move to "add more zip to the Crimson's attack," Weiland said. Aggressive sophomore Paul Kelley will be on the first line beside Bob Cleary and Lyle Guttu...
Making the rounds of eight regional party pep gatherings from Santa Fe to Hartford, the Stevenson smile, quip and zip were at their captivating best (said Campaign Manager Jim Finnegan: the meetings were "little short of sensational"). At Manhattan's Ambassador Hotel, where 250 of the best-heeled Democrats turned out to pledge $350,000 to the fund, the candidate was in fine fettle ("I'm delighted to see a group so distinguished-and so solvent"). In Harrisburg, Pa. he laced his arms around the waists of a couple of "farmerette" Stevenson supporters, joshed away as photographers popped...