Word: zeroes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since last October, when they launched the 4,037-lb. Lunik III, have the Soviets orbited a satellite. A fortnight ago Sputnik III tumbled back into Earth's atmosphere and burned up, so the box score on satellites still transmitting stood at U.S. six, U.S.S.R. zero. It was doubtful that, in the Kremlin, anybody was telling any new jokes about space...
...proof? "My five-year-olds learn to write, count, add, subtract, divide; they learn basic geometric forms and elementary algebra; they use rulers and compasses; they learn to spell and to read 50 to 75 words. They understand the concept of zero, that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points, that all radii of the same circle are equal, that 3/6 and 4/8 are also 1/2, that 4/3 is 1⅓|, and that if 3 is divided by 2 it becomes 1½." Moreover, next year's class will begin conversational French ("Fives love to imitate...
...string of balloons, a pair of bridge tables littered with the debris of some nightmarish New Year's Eve-champagne bottle in bucket, movie projector, alarm clock, broom, toys. After looking about to see that the performers were in their places, Cage somberly raised his left arm. "Zero!" he cried...
...fish inspires such zeal or exacts such sacrifice from its pursuers as the huchen of the Alps. He who would snare a huchen (pronounced Aooken) must fight his way to riverbanks through drifts of snow, shiver for hours in near-zero weather temperatures, often squinting at his line through a needling spray of sleet. For only in winter's nadir does Europe's mightiest game fish begin to strike as it gets ready to spawn in the spring. And only when the weather is abominable-visibility poor, the river lashed by storm-will the wary huchen flash...
...handle the placing of all newspaper ads. While private advertisers have successfully resisted strict government control over their ads, Menderes' men see to it that government advertising goes to his favorite publications. After the Ankara weekly Akis (Reflection) criticized a public official, its government ad quota dropped to zero...