Word: zero
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shop, liberal welfare benefits, and a respect for Parker's enlightened methods; never in the company's 60-year history have they called a strike. A year and a half ago, feeling that the time clock irritated employees, Parker abolished it. Tardiness and absenteeism dwindled to almost zero...
...Forces sent him to India, where he flew a flock of missions out of a funny little strip at Ondal. He could give a Zero half a turn and still nail it in his sights. And one day he buzzed the airfield at Rangoon just to drop some comic books...
...weekly Barnard College Bulletin came out in favor of Stevenson; the dissenter, however was given space in the Bulletin's editorial columns to express her views. Some students said Spectator should have made a similar move, but the editors claim their vote was unanimous, eight to zero...
...Coup. Zero hour was at 1:30 a.m. on July 23. Special duty squads seized strong points at the approaches to Cairo; jeeploads of young officers roared into town, rapped at doors and windows, and rounded up eleven generals and a battalion of sleepy colonels, including Naguib's brother Aly, commander of the Cairo garrison. "Shall I personally inform General Aly's wife?" a young officer asked Naguib. "Do the same as you did with the others." Naguib ordered, and his brother was packed off to jail...
...Minute to Zero has the regulation quota of action scenes and combat heroics. One sequence, in which Mitchum orders the shelling of a civilian refugee column that harbors Communist guerrillas, was found objectionable by the Department of Defense. The producers of the picture refused to eliminate the scene, and it remains the only unusual feature in a formula film...