Word: zippo
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...obsessed? Oh, you mean these Studebakers. Well, in fact, they happen to be the largest collection of Studebakers in North America, if you don't count Phillips in Bismarck, N.D., with his to-say-the-least questionable "rebuilt" engines. I don't think so. How do you like these Zippo lighters--1,110, if you're counting. I certainly am. What about my Marilyn Monroe movie furniture, my Trekkie memorabilia, my Daisy Buchanan, my Holy Grail, my double helix? Call me obsessed? What do you think of this church ceiling? Took me 10 years hanging...
...meant a strong awareness of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. News of political strife hijacked the headlines. As a teenager, I was familiar with names like Arafat, Dayan, Kissinger and Brzezinski. We also knew that the U.S. would always take the Israeli side, yet we embraced every U.S. import, from Zippo lighters to Bubblicious gum to Charles Bronson...
...been said that the definition of a professor is someone who knows more and more about less and less until one knows everything about nothing. But most students see their professors as human Zippo lighters that ignite waning intellectual wicks. Perhaps it's no surprise, then, to find that these foaming fonts of knowledge prove just as resourceful in tantalizing salivating hedonistic palates as academic ones...
...campaigns, adding: "I just don't think that dog will hunt this time." "Saddam Hussein is probably better off than four years ago." Quoting Jack Kemp as saying Dole never "met a tax he didn't hike. "Supports electronic gun control checks. If they register "tilt," the buyer "gets zippo." "I hate drugs, Senator." "Great Britain--they've always been loyal to us." "It is not midnight in America, Senator." "My blood pressure's lower, my weight and my cholestorol. But I don't want to make health an issue in this campaign." On drugs: "Just...
MEMORIES OF THE VIETNAM War, for those who did not serve in it, tend to be drawn from the image bank of television footage: a U.S. soldier applying a Zippo lighter to a peasant hut; a Saigon official shooting, on camera, a suspected Viet Cong terrorist through the head. But before the war escalated into a staple item on the nightly news, a much smaller conflict had played itself out in South Vietnam. This one pitted U.S. military brass and members of the Kennedy Administration against a small group of young print reporters assigned to cover a communist guerrilla insurrection...