Word: zoomed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spring is here early this year as the temperatures will zoom into the super 50's. Regretfully, however, there will also be occasional rain (spring showers) which will turn into snow tonight...
...they join because, under company-union contracts, they have to in order to get jobs. In last week's U.A.W. walkouts, bored pickets paced perfunctorily, showing little of the zealot enthusiasm of the 1930s. In the past 20 years, the average hourly wage of a steelworker has zoomed from 90½? to $3.82, and the pattern has been followed in other major industries. But with the zoom, the zip has gone. Says an Electrical Workers' official in Colorado: "Our members used to ride to work on a bicycle and eat cabbage for lunch. Now they own a home...
...houses by working on them himself. So impressed was Valley National that it backed him on more houses, and in 1952 helped him move into commercial building. Two years later, at 31, he was worth a million, chiefly in land parcels north of downtown Phoenix that were soon to zoom in value...
...mighty repast of oysters, turtle soup, roast pheasant, champagne and all the trimmings, plus an 85-lb. birthday cake doused with his favorite brandy. Churchill's birthday moved New York Times Correspondent Sulzberger to recall how he recently remarked to Sir Winston in Morocco that men might soon zoom to other planets. "Oh, no!" cried Churchill. "Why would anyone wish to leave this earth...