Word: zero
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knew there would be reprisals, and he returned to the barracks, determined to fight it out. At the barracks, with everyone expecting the worst, the tall colonel told them that they were not counter-revolutionaries but only people who wanted truth and freedom. When the Communist radio announced that zero hour for surrender had passed, and then extended the time limit, everyone suddenly laughed and started shaking hands and hitting people on the back. "We knew we were strong and the government was weak." said Peter...
...down, layer on layer, millennium on millennium. The meridians of the earth converge upon this great snow desert, closing in to pinpoint that half mystical, half mythical objective of adventurers, scientists and explorers, the South Pole. At the Pole the temperature may drop as low as 120° below zero, and there, as far as any man knows, no creature has ever survived the long antarctic winter night...
Across the snow-swept plains of below-zero Alberta, a grain farmer drove 75 miles to Calgary to place an overseas telephone call to Budapest. At the expense of the Calgary Herald, Mike Kadar, 47, an immigrant from Hungary 28 years ago, sought to talk, brother to brother, to none other than Janos Kadar, No. 1 stooge of the Soviet puppet regime in Hungary. He had small hopes of shoring up younger brother Janos' spine, but other Hungarian-Canadians had besought Mike Kadar to try to intercede in behalf of their valiant relatives still writhing under Russian guns...
Shortly after graduation, he contributed an essay entitled "They Say in the Colleges" to an anti-Fascist collection entitled "Zero Hour." He set out to speak "not for my fellows but about them," but first he established his own position: "I believe in the dignity of the individual," the young graduate wrote, "in government by law, in respect for the truth, and in a good God; these beliefs are worth my life, and more...
...knees were bent and could not be straightened; her elbows were straight and could not be bent; her hips were bent and frozen. Last year, aged 25, Angelina was taken to the arthritis clinic at Manhattan's superbly equipped Hospital for Special Surgery. There she scored near zero on the ADL (activities of daily living) test: she could not walk, dress or feed herself, comb her hair, or go to the bathroom alone...