Word: nought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They had listened carefully and copied down each date and its number patiently. but the radio announcer's recap made it all too clear that their care and patience had been for nought...
Clouzot's world is as exciting as it is black. All men are equal in the long run, because all their efforts are reduced to nought by the impersonal fate which guides their lives. The Wages of Fear is probably the best film noir in twenty years, so fans of Hitchcok, Sartre, Poe, Graham Greene, and Ambrose Bierce should not miss...
...counted for nought with the President of France. Last week, on the day after his 78th birthday, he brought off the greatest surprise in a long lifetime dedicated to the practice of the unexpected. In a stunning act of defiance against the world's financial experts and the seeming necessity of events, he refused to devalue the franc by one centime. Compared with De Gaulle's other famous nons-his withdrawal from NATO and his vetoes of British admission to the Common Market-the refusal to devalue was, perhaps, not of equal importance but certainly even more surprising...
There's nought, no doubt, so much the spirit calms...
...meter that lost ignominiously to the U.S.'s Weatherly in 1962. That debacle cost Multimillionaire (newspapers, radio and TV) Packer an estimated $675,000-hardly enough to dent his enthusiasm. Last year he spent about $150,000 to have Gretel rebuilt for another try, but that came to nought (TIME, January 27) when a brand new Aussie challenger, Dame Pattie, convincingly trounced Gretel in a series of shakedown races off Sydney. Nothing would do then except to rebuild Gretel yet another time. Back she went to the yard, where, at a cost of $44,800, shipwrights stripped...