Word: zeroes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When told of the pending decision, George E. Hamlin, Jr., assistant director at Loeb, said that the "chances of them using Loeb in winter are zero." He called winter television production in Loeb "a use it wasn't intended...
Since he is best known as the builder of Brasilia, he explained in some detail why he had felt the much-criticized new capital necessary. Describing the vast Western region of virgin forest and Indian tribes, where "per capita income is exactly zero," he stressed the importance of "immediate integration of that region with the economic life of the country...
...action. Your tongue forces it back in the throat and you swallow normally. It's all a positive displacement machine all the way through." He shook his head violently to see if the motion would induce space sickness. Nothing happened. "I have had no ill effects at all from zero G," he reported. "It's very pleasant, as a matter of fact. Visual acuity is still excellent. No astigmatic effects. No nausea or discomfort whatsoever...
Kinasewich scored the tie-breaker in incredible, Kinasewich fashion. Standing on the goal line to the far right of the cage, he somehow slapped the puck into the nets at a zero-degree angle...
Though the Government's official shelter booklet uses 5-megaton bombs as the basis for its calculations, bigger warheads, with greater destructive power over a wider radius, must certainly be reckoned with. A 50-megaton blast could ignite frame houses up to 60 miles from Ground Zero, burning or asphyxiating many people in basement fallout shelters-or tumbling their houses down on them. Scientists also think a nuclear blast might produce a fierce fire storm, which would suck up oxygen over large areas and kill all in its path-but no one can be certain...