Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...luggage opened by Red customs guards. "That is quite unnecessary, Mr. Davies," beamed the Ogpu official, "in your case." Jouncing on for 15 hours to Moscow, Ambassador & Mrs. Davies were met by Soviet and U. S. Embassy officials in high hats and sleek great coats, shivering in 14-below-zero cold which would have made fur caps and untidy bearskins more comfortable. A dozen Red cameramen snapped the Davieses, and off they roared through streets cleared by Stalin's orders to their palace. It was evident that the Dictator, having badly muffed and antagonized the first Roosevelt Ambassador...
...likes good Scotch, good cigars, good dinners, Stilton cheese, seldom appears without a white carnation in his lapel. Years ago after making long telescope observations, with a glass of Scotch & soda for company, he used to dream that he was suspended in interstellar space at a temperature of Absolute Zero. Lately such nightmares have troubled him less frequently...
Plenty of cattlemen present remembered the tough old days. Past President Charles E. Collins, who has been in the saddle for 50 years and still rides his 50,000 Colorado acres in sub-zero weather, could recall the time when nothing except long-horn cattle roamed the range. And presented to the convention was Rev. L. R. Millican, 84, a wrinkled, white-thatched Baptist circuit-rider who as a boy knew General Sam Houston, father of Texas independence...
...instituted by Dictator Chiang some years ago and pursued with varying vigor. In the main and in principle, Chinese police pick up obvious addicts, throw them into "hospitals" which resemble jails. There they are given shots of drugs in gradually decreasing doses and when these have tapered off to zero the patient is forcibly tattooed with a mark saying he has been "cured." If a Chinese thus tattooed is again picked up for drug indulgence by the police, they have the privilege of executing him without further ado. In many Chinese cities these executions take place from time to time...
...curiosity and it was soon at bursting point. In Government circles it was said that the Young Marshal was going to be tried before the Dictator by some Chinese judges and jurors and that their verdict would be ten years in jail, followed by commutation of this sentence to zero days in jail...