Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Police examined the two figures sprawled on the floor of the little frame house in Marshalltown. Iowa, and called the undertaker. Despite a low-burning oil heater, the 24-below-zero cold had crept into the house. Mrs. Fred Davis, 50, and her two-year-old granddaughter Vickie had apparently been lying there all night (victims of assault or accident, no one is yet sure which), and their bodies were frozen rigid. But the woman suddenly moaned softly, and police rushed her and the child to the hospital...
...above zero when the 85 members of the Porgy and Bess company got to Leningrad, the first American theatrical troupe ever to visit Russia. Jammed on the station platform to greet them with bouquets of white chrysanthemums were hundreds of officials and theatrical personalities, backed by thousands of unofficial well-wishers. First of the all-Negro cast off the train was John McCurry (who plays Crown). McCurry stretched his 6-ft.-6-in., 265-lb. frame and muttered, "This is T-shirt weather in Minnesota...
...streets from the airport were lined with Red army soldiers and tens of thousands of dark-clad Muscovites, who stood in the sub-zero cold, craning their necks for a glimpse of the official entourage. Among those welcoming the "peacemakers" were a number of top-level bureaucrats just back from viewing a series of thermonuclear explosions * in north Siberia. Together they all piled into the Kremlin to get ready for this week's special meeting of the Supreme Soviet. Though the welcome was vast, it was silent; no one in the streets cheered...
...Southpaw. Long before he knew what the word meant, Bill Russell was trained to be an athlete. But basketball was not part of the plan; in Monroe, La., where Bill was born, a Negro boy's prospects for first-class high-school training in basketball were close to zero. Bill's Uncle Bob decided that his nephew should grow up to be a baseball player. If Bill developed into a lefthanded pitcher, he might play good enough ball on Monroe's sand lots to earn a college scholarship. So Uncle Bob started early to convert a naturally...
...laws that govern spin temperatures at -K. are not for physics beginners, and ordinary rules of thermodynamics do not work. They lead to the incorrect conclusion that a heat engine operating below absolute zero can do work, e.g., produce mechanical energy, without affecting the temperature of the material that it is ' using as an energy source. Professor Ramsey proposes that one of the thermodynamics laws (among the most sacred in physics) be changed to preclude the possibility of a -K. perpetual-motion machine...