Word: zeroes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...assembly. Though they are obsolescent planes by U.S. standards, the "Beagles" have a nuclear capability and a range of 1,500 miles. In any attack on the U.S., they could be used as a manned one-way kamikaze system to strike at U.S. cities, freeing Soviet ICBMs to zero in on other U.S. targets. Moreover, they could also raise all sorts of hell south of the border...
...Greece wheeled its fragile economy into Europe's Common Market last week. As the first associate member, Greece will benefit from the Market's present 50% tariff reduction for insiders and has been given twelve to 22 years to lower its own tariffs to zero-the near-term goal of the other six nations. This is a special dispensation to give Greece time to shape its inadequate, overprotected and disorganized industries to compete in Western Europe...
...complaining. About every two minutes she was complaining. About her feet, her hands, her bottom. I suggested that we leave. "Don't be a jerk," she replied cheerily, "I'm going to prove I'm gung-ho. We stay till the end." I watched the clock creep toward zero. Finally the last play was run off, or so I thought. There was time for one more and we sat down again. There was a puddle there...
...Jersey's Motion Inc. includes a capacitor that is charged by the high-tension current that is normally fed directly from coil to spark plugs. The capacitor delivers a short hot spark even when a feeble battery is painfully trying to start a cold engine in zero weather...
...That gift is brilliantly displayed in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Dynamic Robert Morse supplies high-voltage clowning. High-styled low comedy of the vaudeville-cum-burlesque variety sets the house roaring with belly laughs at A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Zero Mostel is the pluperfect master of the zany revels...