Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suddenly began losing weight-14 Ibs. in one week, followed by a serious hemorrhage. Surgeons removed a cancer-ridden right lung and several cancerous glands along his spine. De Borse's remaining lung developed bronchopleural fistulas, and the hospital staff rated his chance of recovery at just about zero...
...stood to reason that Novelist André Malraux, onetime fighter pilot with the Loyalists in Spain's civil war, and internationally famed art critic, would eventually zero in on Francisco Goya. An illness deafened Goya in his 40s and turned him from pleasant art to black indictments of man's inhumanity and fate's immutability. Believing that Napoleon's invasion of Spain in 1808 spelled liberation, Goya at first collaborated. Inevitable disillusion further deepened his pessimism. Malraux, too, had a severe comeuppance in middle age when his Communist leanings proved to have been a flirtation with...
Faced with a congregation numbering zero. Pastor Higgins rounded up 15 volunteers, canvassed the neighborhood with flyers proclaiming: "Look what God has done! He has placed a new voice in the community!!!" One white woman called 125 friends and urged them to come for the next four weeks, "to establish a pattern for the congregation." Last week
...Lonnie Taylor, ordered by a bandit to hand over about $105 cash and then go into the men's room "to count to 100," got to five and hurried out to call police, found the gunman just leaving, was told to get back in and start again-from zero...
...pilot has little to do. He tells the 67 the position of the take-off point (in latitude and longitude, from his chart) and the course to his objective. Then he flies the airplane so that the course-error needle reads zero. It will take him any place in the world. It will even tell him when a slight change of course or altitude has found a more favorable wind. A common experience for Navy pilots flying with the 67 is to take off from San Diego, navigate across the continent by watching a single needle, and come down through...