Word: zero
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...temperature reached zero in Boston last night, and should hover around ten degrees most of this morning...
...Zero to one hundred to one thousand! BOOM!!" thundered the tape recorder. There was another silence, and then the machine resumed in a matter-of-fact tone: "You see that we have quite a margin to expand above 4.0." (The number refers to the Chart of Human Evaluation, which measures one's mental health by the standards of Dianetics...
...Worland, Wyo. near the Big Horn Mountain range was loaded with oil. Seven years ago, with his wife Isabella, he set out to prove it. He and his wife drove their trailer to the end of a road, then trudged miles across rugged hills and gullies, often in below-zero weather, mapping the terrain. As rodman of the surveying team, Mrs. Ziegler would hold the 4-in.-wide, 16-ft. surveying rod where Ziegler directed, was often upended into cactus plants by the wind. "It was hard work," says Ziegler, "but it was beautiful. There were many trout streams...
Newsmen thought it was a tossup which was colder-the six-above-zero dawns on Nevada's frozen mountainsides or the Atomic Energy Commission. The AEC wouldn't even give reporters the time of day of an A-blast, or the day. So, for three weeks of icy daybreaks, almost 100 reporters clambered up the mountainsides and stood in five-inch snow, peering towards the test site at Frenchman's Flat, waiting for a blast. By last week, when the first big explosion finally came, one-third of the correspondents had given up in disgust. By week...
...odds: three chances out of ten that someone will be hit every 100 years. Since a little Japanese girl was nicked in 1927 by what was probably a meteorite, the danger for the rest of earth's inhabitants for the rest of the century is just about zero...