Word: zooms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...free world, mad opthamologists aiming to give her a pupil transplant--and the fun would start. Before Sandy could even "Arf," Daddy would be on the scene in his 200-foot yacht, puffing on a dark Havana as he watched Punjab and the Asp contrive a properly nasty comicstrip zoom for the malefactors. It was a fun little game, and Daddy played it just right, cool and cunning and with just the faintest suggestion that he was enjoying the hell out of the whole show. Then he'd weigh anchor and take everybody over to South Africa to watch...
Earlier this year, as the economic recovery picked up momentum, some savvy Wall Street professionals were predicting that stock prices would zoom and the Dow Jones industrial average would easily soar beyond the peak of 1,051.70 it reached in 1973. So much for savvy. Since January the stock averages have wobbled and worried their way down steadily. Last week the 1977 market's peevishness turned into something approaching panic, as a selling stampede slashed share values and drove the Dow down to its lowest level in 18 months...
...existing politely he makes a scene on the air, replete with words rarely heard on television. The network respectables are outraged. But the network's younger technocrats, who don't care about the integrity of the news, point out that the anchorman's antics have caused the ratings to zoom...
...Harvard band's show was obscured by the "Prudential College Scoreboard" up-date, during which Murphy read scores over zoom shots on individual members of the band. Both bands were mere instruments of the ABC sound crew, as Staeckel cued them as well: "Okay, Bob, have the band pad out the commercial and tell them to stop when the QB brings 'em to the line...
Good Smiles. Ford has his drawbacks. He can be slow in repartee, and his hesitations show. To make this less noticeable, Ford's team coaxed the Carter group into allowing seven cameras in the theater to provide closeups, zoom shots and split-screen lens movement that may help animate Ford's wooden image. He is being coached on certain words that give him trouble. He tends, for example, to say "judg-uh-ment," stretching the word into three syllables. None of this worries his close friend Senator Robert Griffin very much: "People don't expect much from...