Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...zero hour, Russian guns and bombers blasted German defenses. Into the gap poured Russian infantrymen and tanks, until then hidden in gullies and ravines. By the end of the second day, the forces of bald, hard-driving General Ivan Konev had opened a breach 28 miles wide, 16 miles deep, soon pushed the wedge southward at a fast pace. By this week, his army had driven some 70 miles into the bulge, was pounding on the gates of Krivoi Rog, an important rail and iron center. Outflanked, the German troops in Dniepropetrovsk abandoned the great city, with its wrecked power...
Bachelor of Music. Ernesto Lecuona is a quiet citizen who likes to wear fine clothes-in which, however, he looks like Comedian Zero Mostel. He says he dislikes nightclubs, but he makes the Manhattan rounds with systematic regularity. He also visits churches and museums. The seldom-visited place he calls home is a finca (farm) about 40 minutes outside Havana where he has a nine-room house surrounded with tropical fruit trees, ten dogs and a large assortment of hogs, cattle and horses...
...Tracers went by me," said he. "so I pulled up, collecting some 7.7 slugs through the cockpit enclosure. The Zero behind me pulled away. Firing from 100 yards, I continued through his pull-out and roll. He 'went in' when his port wing was shot...
...jumped by a Zero at 100 feet," he said. "Then I used the hand lever to dump the flaps and I saw the Jap go by and pull up in a turn. I just held my trigger down until he blew...
...miles behind the bombers and catching up fast when a 7.7 slug from a Zero entered the cockpit. I pushed over, skidded away and went into a steep dive at 500 feet. I barely managed to mush out at 50 feet over the water. The Zero had less luck, I guess. At least he wasn't there when I looked-just a big splash...