Word: zipping
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...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...
...weekly staff meeting, a Cabinet meeting, a State Department dinner for the President of Ecuador, a string of office appointments. Through it all, he seldom looked tired. Whenever the pace began to wear, a quick pull at the department's rowing machine and a shower restored his zip...
...Maxwell Lewis Rafferty Jr., 45, who put most of the zip into the fight. The onetime superintendent of a couple of middle-sized school districts in Southern California, Rafferty ran against every lingering aspect of progressive education, often appearing on the platform with...
...expects something less. On one hand, he insisted that the recovery "has been a good one." and to bolster his point, cited a list of economic indicators at record levels. Then, in a tacit admission that he was just as disappointed in the economy's lack of zip as most businessmen, the President proceeded to promise that he would ask Congress for "an across-the-board reduction in personal and corporate income tax." effective...
...Dreamy Pines Motor Court, where two hoods called Sluggsy and Horror find Vivienne all alone in her black velvet toreador pants ("with the rather indecent gold zip down the seat"). They behave tastelessly ("Okay, Horror. Let her go. This is for me"). Enter, at long last, the man with the white scar on his left cheek. "I quickly put my hand up to hide my nakedness. Then he smiled and suddenly I thought I might be all right...