Word: zero
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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1.Twelve O'Clock High. 2. Germany Year Zero. 3. Battleground. 4. East Side, West Side. 5. All the King...
...hunted bustards with jeep-mounted .50s and .45s . . . None of us ever saw them fly. They walk or run their 20 or 30 miles daily to a water hole. When cornered, they courageously face away from you, elevate their posteriors to the proper altitude, and zero in ... To us Desert Rats, they were known by a name other than, but somewhat similar to, bustard...
Using the best data he could find, Hess drew a temperature map for Mars. It turned out to look much like a terrestrial temperature map. In its "winter" hemisphere, Mars was deathly cold (about 40° below zero Fahrenheit at Lat. 50) and showed no sudden changes of temperature. Near the equator the temperature on Hess's map averaged 50° F. and in the sunny "summer" hemisphere there were two hot spots where Martian thermometers, if any, stood...
...works were by modernist painters-Picasso, Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, Enrico Donati and Joán Miró. The other half were by schizophrenic patients in mental hospitals. Asked to decide which were the outpourings of patients and which the works of artists, the panel scored a perfect zero. They were right half the time, wrong the other half-or no better than they might have been if they had closed their eyes and left it strictly to the laws of chance...
...stock in public adoration or your press clippings. By the time I was 26, I'd heard crowds of 100,000 scream my name but a week later they couldn't remember who I was. You're a hero today and a bum tomorrow-hero to zero, I sometimes...