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Word: zips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

...leave the helm, all he will have to do is flip a switch on an electronic self-steering device; day or night, an array of dials on an instrument panel will tell if he is getting the best performance out of his boat. Small, hand-held computers will zip through calculations that cost Slocum tedious hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Electronic Sailor | 6/16/1975 | See Source »

...rectory doorstep last February, stone-broke and despondent about four divorces and a dead-end acting career. Taken on as an unpaid cook-housekeeper by Fathers Peter Maguire and James Hamilton, she wasted no time at all bouncing back. "She's lost none of her zip," said Father Maguire, adding proudly, "She does a tremendous thing with lamb." Baptized a Lutheran, Betty recently converted to Roman Catholicism, and she has wryly christened her hit breakfast recipe, oatmeal topped with Cool Whip, "Catholic cement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 24, 1974 | 6/24/1974 | See Source »

Wings Mike Page and Joel McClafferty added four points each in picture-perfect rugby plays that saw the ball zip out to the end of the backline before the Princeton defenders knew it was out of the scrum...

Author: By David A. Copithorne, | Title: Rugby Club Tramples Princeton, 28-4 | 4/30/1974 | See Source »

...first bid for immortality came for allowing 12 walks in a seven-inning game (sounds promising for the homeschool heroes so far) but his other foray into the record books was for giving up the fewest hits in a seven inning contest--zero, zip, nothing...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Crimson Nine Splits Doubleheader with Bulldogs | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

...Washington. It is simply done. Anyone at the White House can be reached by writing on a post card or letter envelope the name of the addressee and Washington, D.C. 20500. Any Senator can be reached by an address that includes only his name and Washington, D.C., 20510. The ZIP code for the entire House of Representatives...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THOSE CARDS AND LETTERS | 3/28/1974 | See Source »

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