Word: zero
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accomplish something, and that something was to teach them math. I said I was very interested in not wasting my time. At first they didn't believe me. They were accustomed to not doing their homework and having the teacher say, 'All right, that's a zero.' But I made an issue out of it. I embarrassed them...
Taking Over. For three hours under an X-ray machine. Mrs. Lowman was subjected to massive radiation that killed all her bone marrow. Her white blood corpuscle count fell from the normal 5,000 per cubic centimeter to zero. Then a kidney from a four-year-old girl (whose treatment for hydrocephalus required kidney removal) was transplanted to Mrs. Lowman. The Boston surgeons attached it to the femoral arteries and veins below the groin in her right thigh. She received a dozen marrow transfusions before and during the operation, mainly from her brothers. With her count of disease-fighting white...
Mister Sam's stubborn stand left chances for action on presidential disability this session at something close to zero. And that also left the nation's security against chaos-by-disability resting solely upon the Eisenhower-Nixon agreement, which Mister Sam derides, with the prestige he has piled up in 45 years in the House and 13 years as Speaker, as little more than a scrap of paper...
...caused radio to jump out of bed and click its heels while the public was dressing for the funeral. Then you went and abdicated your programing to the 8-to-14-year-olds, to the pre-shave crowd that makes up 12% of the country's population and zero percent of its buying power-once you eliminate ponytail ribbons, Popsicles and peanut brittle. Youth must be served-but how about some music for the rest...
...goods, they are not cutting down on food, clothing, or services. With salesmanship, the consumer can even be enticed into buying summer appliances in the dead of winter. Said an executive of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co., which ran an air-conditioner sale in February's zero weather: "It was fantastic. We sold out, reordered, sold out again. It goes to show that the money is there when the public wants something and gets it at a bargain...