Word: zipping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hospital in Winston-Salem, 20 miles away. State troopers had joined Lexington police and firemen by then. Using fire hoses, they drove away the crowd. Next day seven young Lexington Negroes and twelve whites were arrested. Police said the Negroes were armed with a zip gun, a shotgun and a sawed-off .22 caliber rifle...
...Zip my pants up, shout...
...Zip-uh-de-doodah...
Some Hawaiians fear that the exodus of Big Five capital bodes ill for Hawaii's continued growth. Hawaii's economy, which has recently lost some of its zip, rests precariously on four principal sources of income-sugar, pineapples, tourism, and military spending. Any decrease in agricultural income without offsetting increases in tourism and military spending, would be a serious blow and critics of the Big Five argue that by taking their know-how abroad, the companies may actually help foreign producers to cut into Hawaiian pineapple and sugar sales. In rebuttal, defenders of the Big Five insist that...
...Zip & Drive. All this "enlarging of horizons" impressed Caltech's Dean of Freshmen Foster Strong, when he headed the committee that approved accreditation of N.I.T. as a four-year degree-granting school in 1958. The geographical spread of N.I.T. students. Strong discovered, "was even better than Caltech's."The dedicated faculty, one examiner recalls, "had zip and drive...