Word: zero
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blanket of sub-zero weather shrouded New England last night with the mercury falling into the minus column across the northern sections...
...dozen Quaker households near Manhattan, 24 other young Japanese women were waiting their turn to undergo plastic surgery, some for the second or third time. They all had one thing in common: ten years ago they were on the streets of Hiroshima within a mile of ground zero on the day the first atom bomb was dropped...
...meals-and-no-lunch regimen. His menus were hearty: a breakfast of fried cornmeal mush with chicken-giblet gravy and sausages, a dinner of spareribs and sauerkraut, corn bread and black-eyed peas. The weather had been perfect: bracing during the day, quite cold at night (12° above zero one night). More than a trace of autumn tanged the air: the Rocky massif was already splotched with golden aspens, and on the highest peaks the season's first snow fell...
Lightning crashed from the dark skies over London and thunder reverberated in its byways one evening last week, as C-day came to Britain. "Zero hour is on us," intoned a voice over the nation's TV sets...
...German armies were in full retreat from their disastrous Russian campaign. On half an hour's notice, the prisoners were ordered to march west, through 40°-below-zero cold, across the same winter terrain where Napoleon's ragged foot soldiers once made their own decimating retreat from Moscow. Having lived on half rations for nearly a year, the shaky, shaggy marchers had more to fear than hunger or freezing. Their long, anonymous column made a tempting target for Allied air power, beginning the final sky mop-up in Europe...