Word: zeroes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Snare drums roll. Spotlights lattice the darkness and zero in on a trim brunette and a dangling hook. She thrusts the hook into a ring knotted in her hair, and while spectators watch in disbelief the rope tautens, and slowly she is lifted up and up through the elephant-scented air until she is dangling 73 ft. high. Then she calmly starts juggling three pastel Indian clubs, all the while hanging by her hair...
...single was Del Rossi's third hit of the day; he almost outhit the entire Bruin team. The Crimson lefthander gave Brown just four hits in notching his fourth win of the year, against zero losses. He struck out eight and, for the second time this year, didn't give up a walk...
Where armies went, peaceful travelers and brigands followed. In summer, crossing the pass was exhausting and dangerous. In winter, only the very skilled or very lucky escaped death in the snow-choked heights, where temperatures dropped to 22° below zero. St. Bernard of Menthon, in the 11th century, founded his famed hospice to offer aid and shelter to weary travelers; only rarely, nowadays, do the monks and their St. Bernard dogs go out in search of lost souls, although some poor Italian emigrants and occasional smugglers may risk their lives after September, when the pass is closed to motor...
...become a spiritual vagrant-one of that vocal tribe of U.S. intelligentsia whose identifying marks are alienation and a search for identity. Cheever never had any doubt as to his identity. As an economic unit, he was a zero-apparently just a lost boy hanging around Boston. But his brother Fred, who was as convinced as John himself that writing was John's business in life, subsidized him with the midget sums necessary to keep him alive...
...hottest TV star in Tucson, Ariz., has a Trendex rating of zero. Equity has never heard of him. But to housewives in a 17-story, 411-apartment complex called Tucson House, Joseph J. Gorman is bigger than Judy Garland. Gorman is a grocer whose market, located in the new $6,500,000 building's basement, is hooked into a closed-circuit television system that gives its built-in audience laughs, punditry and laid-yesterday eggs at a moment's notice...