Word: nil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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shortages of strategic materials contained in the Paley Report (TIME, June 30, 1952), none were more pessimistic than the facts about U.S. nickel supplies: U.S. production was almost nil, yet U.S. nickel requirements would be doubled by 1975. Last week brighter news about the U.S. nickel outlook came from Canada. Falconbridge Nickel Mines Ltd. began development of a new mine in northern Ontario on an estimated lode of 10 million tons of rich copper-nickel ore. A nine-year U.S. Government contract insures that practically all the mine's output will...
Beyond the Communist darkness, plain people everywhere showed their feelings plainly: surprise, relief, curiosity, apprehension. But in chancelleries, the dictates of conscience contested with the practices of diplomacy. Officially, a policy of de mortals nil nisi bonum (but not too much bonum) generally prevailed. Some responses...
That was the sum of his distinctions in 1946, when he decided to run for the Senate. His political qualifications seemed to be nil. His friends thought he must be joking or that he meant the Delaware state senate. He knew only one (retired) politician, had made only one speech in his life (to a Rotary Club). On that occasion, he could not be heard beyond the front row, and he was uneasy and ungrammatical. "It was just something I thought might could be done." he says...
French said: "My lawyer informed me that there is no precedent for a suspended sentence. The chances of one are nil... there is no parole of any sentence lighter than one year and this will not in all likelihood be light...
...after the Bolshevik Revolution. In 1920 Joseph Hecht and his wife decided to send their husky young sons, Shimon and Yehyel, to Palestine. It was a lucky break for the Hecht brothers, because as time went by, the chances of getting out of the Soviet Union diminished to nil. Mr. & Mrs. Hecht were forced to stay in Bobruisk. Shimon and Yehyel became foundation members of Degania B, a communal settlement in the Jordan Valley...