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Word: zips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Glacé Blondes. The Grand Prix circuit is the class act in racing. Unlike stock-car drivers, Grand Prix racers are rich sybarites who zip through the industrialized world in futuristic "Formula I" nodules of fiber glass. Theirs is a life of death and daring where excess baggage means two cars and a couple of glacé blondes. "This is the only gentlemen's sport left," observed a Caracas businessman. "Polo and tennis are such a bore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: On the Road At Long Beach | 4/12/1976 | See Source »

...minute break just before halftime in this semester, you're down 21 zip, and all you wanna do is get into the locker room fast--maybe when you re-emerge things will be better. Or better yet, maybe they won't have a guard posted and you can slip out the back door, never to return...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Bashed and Buffetted | 3/25/1976 | See Source »

When Meagher scored his second goal at 9:26 and Bill Buckton made it four-zip at 16:43, after the Crimson defense handed the puck to the Terriers in their own end, it was evident that the Harvard squad did not belong on the same ice with number-one-ranked Boston University...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: B.U. Humiliates Harvard, 8-4, in ECAC Semifinal | 3/13/1976 | See Source »

MOVEMENT. Glass-walled elevators, bedecked with lights, zip up and down-fun to watch and to ride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: Building Fantasies for Travelers | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

When play resumed, the cagers' fluid scoring punch had as much zip left as cold mashed potatoes. The two biggest cogs thrown into the Crimson machinery were the Quakers' leading scorers John Engels, who skied for 27 points, and Keven McDonald. The two average 15.6 and 18.8 points per game respectively...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Quakers Nip Fired Up Crimson, 80-75 | 2/21/1976 | See Source »

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