Word: zero
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...since the dust storms blew across Kansas in 1936 have winter wheat prospects looked so bad. In some Kansas counties last week, 80% of the 1951 crops had been abandoned because of drought, sub-zero winter temperatures and insects. Across the rest of the U.S. wheat belt, prospects were almost as poor: one expert predicted a 624,970,000-bushel crop, 21% less than the ten-year average, and 18% less than last year. Because of the estimated big carryover of 425 million bushels as of July 1, there will be plenty of wheat this year for bread, breakfast cereals...
...friend raced back to notify the Air Force at McChord Field. Within 45 minutes a 6-17 roared over, dropped food, a radio, a small stove and warm clothes. Late that night National Park Service rangers worked their way toward the summit in 20-below-zero weather. Hodgkin said he sat in the cockpit, struggling to keep his frail craft from flipping over in the 70-mile-an-hour gale that howled over the peak. "That plane was-flying tied down," he added. "If those tie ropes had been longer, I'd have soared up like a kite...
...article entitled IVY LEAGUE DIAGNOSES ITSELF: 'NO GUTS' the Guardian printed chunks of a recent editorial from the CRIMSON about a trend in American education towards "safe plodding rather than expression of unpopular opinions." Our editorial had been run as a commentary on a "Daily Dartmouth" ed entitled "Mr. Zero IV"--an impassioned job of soul searching which concluded that students "had stopped looking at the Other Side, ceased reading and thinking about it." We decided that the fault was not only in colleges but everywhere...
Superintendent of State Police John A. Gafmey admitted that he had bottled up a report on Saratoga's wide-open gambling, but pleaded it was contrary to policy to take action in cities. Tobey exploded like a rusty pinwheel. "You did nothing. You were a cipher, a zero!" he roared. "If I were the governor of this state, I would give you just five minutes to get out of the place or I would kick you out." Mumbled Gaffney humbly: "I am glad you aren't the governor...
...sophomore, junior, senior and graduate averages come from New England homes, wear sweaters, skirts and low-heeled shoes (but seldom black horn-rimmed glasses and, complying with college rules, no blue jeans, ski pants, slacks or the like except in dormitories at certain hours and outdoors in sub-zero, blizzard weather). They prefer arts to technical courses, and are enrolled in the only college in the world that doesn't have a faculty...