Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moscow it was the anniversary of Lenin's death. The city smoked with the cold. From the frozen Moscow River, from the Kremlin, and the Cathedral of St. Basil, a vapor rose, clouding the skies and befogging the stars. It was 50 degrees below zero. To Correspondent Eve Curie, a little old woman in a tattered shawl said: "This is a real Russian winter. A winter to freeze Russia's enemies. A winter to freeze Hitler...
...angles, etc. Possessor of a phenomenal memory, he greeted old grads by recalling their seat numbers and their grades in his courses. He paid no attention to the college rule allowing students on the "dean's list" unlimited cuts; rule or no rule, absentees from his classes got zero. He was not at all disturbed by being deaf. Said he: "You don't hear so damned much twaddle...
Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia found time enough between jobs to dash to a waterfront fire in zero weather, got both cheeks frostbitten, departed smeared with salve...
Members making these trips can look forward to real winter conditions for temperatures on Mount Washington drop under 40 degrees below zero, and a wind velocity of 212 miles per hour was once recorded on the summit...
...colonel in the British Army. A veteran of Narvik, Military Cross winner for Commando work in Syria, young Keyes with 30 men made his way to a wadi, near Sidi Raffa, Administrative H.Q. of Rommel's Afrika Corps. Here they lay for two days and nights awaiting the zero hour of the Brit ish attack. When the time came the Commandos daubed their faces with burnt cork, crawled over the desert to the German headquarters building...