Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unpublished as yet in the U.S. was the full armament of the Jap's Navy Zero, which carries at least two 20-mm. cannon and light machine guns...
Throughout the United Nations, suspense mounted. All winter long, retreating here & there, Hitler and his troops had endured, had waited, had piled up strength for the decisive battle. Now spring spread northward in ever-widening circles (see map). The zero hour was hard by. Hitler had feinted with one of the "peace offensives" which are always his last step before war of nerves turns to war of gunpowder...
...Practically perfect human beings from the standpoint of physical endurance," is the label place on the members of the Varsity crew by the Fatigue Laboratory. Their rating generally is 100, or even more, and the more normal residue of the undergraduates are graded on a proportionate scale down to zero. But it is doubtful, they say, that even the most non-athletic grind could attain this lowest of scores...
...wrangling spread. Enlistments in the Guard dropped to zero. For six weeks Guardsmen went unpaid. Morale dwindled. At half strength, Guards did double duty. The situation was desperate, said a Guard colonel, "particularly in regard to the San Francisco waterfront and the Golden Gate Bridge...
Fortnight ago Basin Street added a comedian, Sam ("Zero") Mostel, a 27-year-old six-footer barely out of his swaddling clothes as a professional entertainer. A painter by training and profession, Mostel was only the hit of his friends' parties until February, when a press agent landed him in a Manhattan night spot, Cafe Society. Since then he has been signed for the forthcoming Victor Moore-William Gaxton show Keep 'Em Laughing and last week rode off on a 13 -week Basin Street contract...