Word: null
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mossadeq's aides. The Iranian reaction to rumors of possible British military intervention in Iran was instant and hectic. The National Front newspaper Shahed screamed: "[Neither] oil-eating British politicians [nor] any power or force in the whole world would be able to declare the oil nationalization law null and void without starting World War III . . . For every Iranian the question of oil is a religious and national matter . . . To reach the holy goal a holy war may be needed...
Although brewers said that good porter could be made only with water from London's Thames River, Arthur Guinness disagreed. In 1759, he signed a null lease on the St. James's Gate brewery in Dublin, which used spring water. While other brewmasters took advantage of porter's dark hue to hide impurities swimming around in their vats, Guinness insisted on "none but the best ingredients...
This week, as the Good Book commands, the muzzled ox got fed. Harry Truman nominated loyal Joe Adams for a six-year, null term as a member of the Civil Aeronautics Board, and the Senate unanimously approved the appointment...
...still assigns as many as 30 reporters and photographers, blanketing all other news papers with sharply written coverage, has yet to run a byline over any staffer's sto ry. Before Peron, La Prensa often printed 30 to 40 columns of cable news daily thought nothing of ordering null treaties and other important state papers by cable so that it could print the full texts...
...Goods. By the null Zelda had lost her mind (she was to die in a sanitarium fire in 1948), Fitzgerald's indebtedness was chronic, and even his short stories were being rejected. The novel on which he had spent his greatest effort, Tender Is the Night, appeared in 1934, just as the proletarian novel was moving into its heyday. A long, lyrical study of the emotional and moral bankruptcy of U.S. expatriates in France, Fitzgerald's book sold badly, and was received indifferently by the critics. He spent the last years of his life in Hollywood, at first...