Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friend A. J. Gregory came through with another beat the other day. Some "pal" rushed up to him just before his ascent to flickering filament and said, "I see you've got the zero to 7:30 watch next Tuesday...
...however, and ranking with that of the U.S., is the Soviet work in botany and agriculture. Among many new crops are green, red and black cotton. The Russians have found a method of planting winter wheat (in unplowed stubble) that enables it to withstand Siberian temperatures of 40 below zero. By crossing Merino ewes with wild mountain rams, they have bred a hybrid mountain sheep that bears fine fleece wool. Through their pioneering Institute of Artificial Insemination, Russian biologists have produced 50,000,000 farm animals from vacuum-bottle spermatozoa...
...shows a lone, wan male cowering before a house whose whole three-storied back has somehow melted into the head of the waiting woman. The book also reproduces Thurber's famous 17 drawings illustrating The War Between Men and Women (including The Fight in the Grocery and Zero Hour-Connecticut...
...after he failed to return from an attack on the Yangtse River port of Kiu-kiang. Last April he bailed out of his Army bomber "Old 98" over the jungles of French Guiana (he was the plane's only survivor), last August brought down a Jap Zero over Hong Kong...
...impatience was plain over the TBS ("talk-between-ships") loudspeakers on the bridges of the U.S. ships waiting in the dark. It seemed an unconscionable time before the destroyer, her searchlight still probing, answered: "I am sorry to report it is Five Zero...