Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Churchill, Manitoba, on the west shore of Hudson Bay, in a maneuver called "Operation Musk-Ox." In cabbed, high-powered, 4½-ton snowmobiles,* Canadian-designed for the invasion of Norway, they would plow northward through long Arctic nights and through temperatures 50° or more below zero. Three thousand miles later, after a gigantic U-turn on the roof of the earth (see map), "Operation Musk-Ox" would arrive at Edmonton. The only breaks in 81 days of isolation would be the visits of R.C.A.F. supply planes bringing fuel and food...
Getting, who worked on nuclear physics at Harvard before the war, stated that "the possibility of making an adequate defense against atomic missiles are so vanishingly small as to be zero in any practical viewpoint...
...Blood centers usually excluded drunken donors just to avoid rowdiness; the amount of alcohol that can be transferred by plasma ranges from slight to zero...
...Zero hour had struck. British tanks led the charge, Tommies swept in behind them. Their objective: Berlin's lavish, tree-shaded Tiergarten, center of the city's morbidly flourishing black market...
...program of old jukebox favorites, which were intended to make G.I.s home sick) and amazed that anyone would be lieve she had done her native U.S. wrong: "I didn't think I was doing anything dis loyal." According to Iva, two other girls dou bled on the Zero Hour, one American, one Canadian - and if anything bad was said, they said it. The continuity was written, she said, by a Captain Charles Cousins, an Australian captured at Singapore, and a U.S. Army captain named Ince. She first went on the air as "Ann" (short for announcer), and later expanded...