Word: zero
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Warmly expressed this nation's "friendship and good will" and peaceful intentions toward the Russian people in a congressional resolution forwarded with a covering letter from President Truman. Chances of the Kremlin passing this news ungarbled to Pravda readers: zero. But Voice of America will broadcast it to the U.S.S.R...
...arms, munitions-making machinery and important strategic items to Red territory. But many West Germans have been skirting the ban. During the first six months of the Korean war, West German trade with Communist China jumped 2,700%; iron & steel exports to the Chinese Reds alone went from nearly zero to more than $2,000,000 last year...
...disenchanted mistress of an idealistic French colonel (Lee J. Cobb), and the scene is Damascus in 1925 under the cloud of bitter French-Syrian warfare. Gun-Runner Bogart runs afoul of Colonel Cobb in both love & war, while a murky gallery of black marketeers, informers and Arabian fanatics (Zero Mostel, Nick Dennis, Onslow Stevens, et al.) snuffles ominously through the background...
...example of what doctors must face in war, Captain Hering cited the fighting withdrawal of the 1st Marine Division, with which he was serving as division surgeon, from the Changjin Reservoir to Hungnam last December. The conditions: "Thirty degrees below zero weather with no fires or warming tents, frozen C rations for food, snow for water, and the hills lined with screaming Chinese thousands for 16 bloody miles...
...Then we got hit in the tail. We lost cabin pressure. Instruments started reading zero. All the time, this battle was going south. I think the MIGs finally broke off the attack at Pyongyang...