Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...zero hour. Down to the bank hurried British and American infantry. They waded, swam, paddled and chugged across. Those who got over and clawed up the steep north bank, and those who fell by the way, had taken their hardest punishment since Salerno. They had given punishment, too, and behind them the tough engineers could now thrust bridges for jeeps, tanks and big guns...
...bloodiest fighting surged through Capua itself. Just before the Allied zero hour, the Germans thrust a column across the Volturno into the old town. Momentarily the Fifth staggered. Then Allied troops counterattacked. The Germans quickly turned, splashed back across the river. Northeast of Capua, General Clark's Yanks seized a clump of scrubby brown hills dominating the surrounding valley...
...There is no one "Zero"; there are several Army and Navy types varying slightly in armament, wing contours, performance...
Many airmen now think that this, more than real fighting class, explains the high view which many young fighter pilots (and the U.S. public) originally had for the Japanese Zero: it was almost always on hand in overwhelming strength...
...second team game, the superior weight and experience of the Britishers began to tell late in the first half, and the Harvard booters were kept constantly on the defensive as the Fleet Air Arm won, tour to zero...