Word: zipping
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...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...
...Civilized Barbarian. Sinclair Lewis' works have become period pieces. But in his prime, Lewis had no peer as a knocker of "homo Americanibus." Sinclair Lewis wrote mainly about one man, George Follansbee Babbitt, of Zenith, the Zip town. George Babbitt was a helpless materialist whose one standard was money, a quavering conformist whose only security was found in the back-slapping approval of his fellow Rotarians. He lived in physical comfort greater than kings enjoyed in the past, but he rarely stopped to enjoy it, for he was a Hustler. He was ashamed of his secret dreams...
...counselor who arranged the time & place for gang "rumbles" (wars), and a "light-up" man in charge of the arsenal. The boys spent their time in endless bull sessions at their "hangouts"-a candy store, bar or front stoop. They played hooky, smoked marijuana, stole, carried knives, revolvers and zip guns. They saw nothing shameful in forcing neighborhood girls into sex relations, often with several members of the gang...
...Bernstein ignored the warning and kept on working, but without the old zip and zest. Last May he had a real heart attack-a shutdown in a branch of the artery which feeds the heart muscle. He recalls that after he went back to work, "when I went to sleep I wasn't sure I'd wake up. I lived in fear." So far his history had paralleled that of hundreds of thousands of U.S. victims of coronary disease...
...creator of Li'l Abner, probably has a sharper eye for slobs, monsters, hags and fiends than anyone alive. This means that his eye is very sharp indeed, for the modern slob seldom slobbers and in the 20th Century even monsters are apt to use both Vitalis and Zip, grease themselves liberally with Mum or Dew, and consult a dentist twice a year. Capp is not fooled. At times, in fact, he seems to suspect that the world is peopled exclusively by bloated big businessmen, brainless editors, venal politicians, sadistic cops, cruel stepmothers and shambling, leaping legions of lesser...