Word: nils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...western standards, Thailand's eight-year-old military machine is not formidable. The Army, which runs the Government, boasts 100,000 men, with first-class equipment for about 50,000 others. Its materiel and arsenals are fine but its experience is nil; in the last war Thailanders were used only for labor. The Navy consists of a few Italian and Japanese torpedo boats and destroyers, and four submarines. Some think the submarines can submerge, some think they cannot. The Navy has never tried. It recently offered to take some newspapermen out to prove the submarines could submerge. The newspapermen...
...reference to the recent stories in the newspapers concerning a possible effort by the U. S. to prevent Russian help to Japan, Meyendorff pointed out that Russia's exports to Japan are practically nil and that 80% of Japan's imports come from...
...raids had concentrated on airdromes. The British, for their part, admitted some damage to factories. But they claimed that plants planned by farsighted Marshal of the Royal Air Force Hugh Montague, Viscount ("Boom") Trenchard were just now getting into full production, so that the net loss was nil. Somewhere between the two opposing claims lay the truth...
...been cataclysmic, to judge by the tirade it produced against Harvard's subversive influence and against "German refugees giving military orders in a hospital." It was chivalrous of Mickey to try to protect Cambridge Hospital from Fifth-column assault. Nevertheless, one might perhaps warn him that his grounds are nil, his arguments flabby, and his mode of expression calculated to draw nothing but the horse-laugh...
...involves a dead-locked jury and a new witness before everything winds up happily, the mystery is unraveled, and the newspaper headlines proclaim the verdict. Amazingly enough, "The Man Who Wouldn't Talk" turns out to be fair entertainment. The plot may unfold slowly and the suspense be nil. But it for that reason creates a mildly pleasing sort of complaisant interest--relaxing and free from extremes of emotion--that Hollywood never aims at and seldom produces...