Word: zeroes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Polo Association rates players, in ascending order of ability, from zero to ten goals. Only two men have the top, ten-goal rating: Cecil Smith, 57, a former cowpuncher now with the Hinsdale, Ill., Oak Brook club; and Bob Skene, who plays with teams in San Mateo and Menlo Park, Calif...
...societies," he says, "death may be conquered, but not tragedy." Like Dewey, Hook disdains the jargonauts among his colleagues, insists that questions and answers must merely meet the test of common sense. He exhaustively argues, for instance, that the metaphysical term "Being" is, in Dewey's phrase, a "zero word." The term, Hook says, "merely enables those who write obscurely and feel inchoate to imagine that they are being profound. It is a sophisticated substitute for the concept...
...detect an incoming missile while it is still high in space. As soon as the missile has been "acquired," another radar (Zeus Discrimination Radar) will zero in and decide whether the approaching object is actually an enemy warhead, or a decoy, or a bit of space flotsam. If it is a warhead, the missile will be turned over to a third radar, which will track it until the time comes to shoot it down with a three-stage Nike Zeus rocket. All this will be automatic, and it will happen too quickly for human hand or brain to follow...
...Kennedy feels, things are much more tense now than at the time of Camp David, then it is all the more important that this zero level of public expectation continue. If Kennedy can avoid the kind of inflated optimism and subsequent letdowns that followed Geneva, Camp David, and Paris, then the summits can once again become useful in their own limited...
Voice: 15, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, zero. Liftoff...