Word: zero
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hundreds of men, said Dr. Gerathewohl, made "zero gravity'' flights without alarming effects. As the airplane noses over its curve, the passenger begins to feel a "floating" sensation. A ball tossed in the hand falls more slowly. When it does not fall at all. gravity is suspended. At this point about half of the men who made the test felt pleasant, elated sensations. One of them wished he could live forever at zero gravity...
...country a great service by printing the background of Estes Kefauver [Sept. 17]. You sum up his accomplishments and they spell zero; no wonder he relies on shaking at least 500 hands a day to get votes. If by freak chance he should become President of the farmers and labor barons whom he concentrates on, we'd need another President for most Americans...
...Marxist and a major character in a matter of increasing concern to the U.S.: Western Europe's mounting exchange with Red China. In the four years since Dino Gentili clamped a half nelson on Italy's China trade, he has pushed it from almost zero to $1,000,000-plus a month. Italy has now climbed to third place (behind Britain and West Germany) among Western European nations in trade with the Chinese mainland...
When he first came to power, Nasser's knowledge of how to run a country was close to zero, and he said so. In 1953, when he was negotiating with the British for the evacuation of their Suez base, he suddenly broke off the talks one day, explaining to the astounded British that they were making things too complicated for him. "The British are too clever," he told a friend. "I think I'll take some time out." The talks were resumed some weeks later. Today Nasser still plays the role of youthful amateur, frank and quickwitted...
...TIME erred; a garbled cable transmission dropped a catastrophic zero...