Word: zips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sagan's enthusiasms are widely accepted in the U.S., even by people who have never heard of him. California beach blonds zip the freeways, sporting bumper stickers like: FLYING SAUCERS ARE REAL. The Gallup poll reports that 51% of the American people believe in UFOS. Even the fusty National Academy of Sciences was led recently to admit that contact with other civilizations "is no longer something beyond our dreams but a natural event in the history of mankind that will perhaps occur in the lifetime of many...
...reminiscence into the fifties. "Poison Ivy," "Charley Brown," "Yakety Yak," and "Love Potion Number Nine" were the only songs left to sing for Harvard people after the punchless Princetonians had slushed out a 10-7 upset over the Crimson. The old Harvard fight songs just didn't have much zip after that...
...time, student cellists were taught to bow with their arms close to their sides, even holding a book under their armpits as a method of instruction. Casals tried bowing more freely and also began experimenting with the fingering of the left hand, which in the old tradition used to zip up and down the finger board like a yoyo. The changes may seem trivial, but these techniques revolutionized both the playing of the cello and its stature as a solo instrument...
...U.C.L.A. was defeated by Michigan 26-9. Michigan barely squeaked by Northwestern 7-0. And Northwestern was manhandled by Notre Dame 37-0. That, by all the rules of logic, means that Missouri should have lost to Notre Dame by a lopsided score of something like a zillion to zip. Right...
...scoreless tie, with some ferocious tackling and quickness that was beating their Harvard counterparts. With the ball on the Tufts' 21. Duvachelle swept right, cut back against the flow and then sprinted down the left sideline for the score. Steve Eyen's conversion ran the score to seven-zip...