Word: zero
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What we have, then, is not a building expressive of the purposes of the United Nations, but an extremely fragile esthetic achievement, whose main lines conform to the ideals of a boom period of shaky finance and large-scale speculation . . . As a conscious symbol, the Secretariat adds up to zero; as an unconscious one, it is a negative quantity, since it symbolizes the worst practices of New York, not the best hopes of the United Nations...
...ceiling was close to zero six years ago when Douglas engineers first went to work on plans for the Skyrockets, the week of V-J day. War's end sent Douglas' $2 billion Government backlog tumbling to $60 million, shut down three of his war-built plants, cut his labor force from its peak of 167,000 to a mere 12,000. Douglas thought the future looked so grim that he considered branching out into other products, checked into the possibilities of making everything from mailboxes and cream separators to prefabricated houses. By 1947, he had gone...
...count what you've got left, not what you've lost." It was a good thing that Ed Reeves felt that way. In the bitter fighting around the Changjin Reservoir last winter, he had been hit by a Communist mortar burst, had lain helpless in the sub-zero weather for nine days. Army surgeons had to take off both of his frozen feet and the fingers on both hands...
...Zero at Last. As each move is made by working the proper switches, the computing mechanism figures mathematically just how much damage has been done to the enemy's air power. A smashed airfield, for instance, weakens him at once, but the damage is soon repaired. When a factory is blasted, the effect is not felt for a while, but it lasts much longer. The side that has lost its defensive fighter bases is penalized by heavier losses when enemy bombers strike. By well-planned moves a skillful team can reduce its opponent to near-helplessness long before...
...switches click in the quiet room, cities and industrial centers of both sides turn to electronically simulated rubble. Stockpiles are exhausted. Air bases grow empty of airplanes and bomb dumps empty of bombs. At last the needle of one dial creeps down to zero. This means that one of the contenders-blasted, paralyzed, probably radioactive-has lost all its air power. The game is over...