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Word: zeros (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coach Joe Maras kept his "Mr. Zero" tag intact, as his wrestlers beat M.I.T for their fourth straight shutout. The Yardlings had six pins in eight matches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Teams Win Five of Six Matches; Quintet Loses, 71 to 74 | 2/12/1953 | See Source »

...Boston Bruins had the local sports scene's first "Mr. Zero," when goalie Frankie Brimsek was one of their greatest stars. This year, the University has a "Mr. Zero" to match him--freshman wrestling coach Joe Maras. His team has not been scored upon this season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Mister Zero's' Yardling Wrestlers Hold Opponents Scoreless--- So Far | 2/11/1953 | See Source »

...that football has become so complicated a game that spring drilling is essential. This is absurd in my view, because the abolition of two platooning makes the sport less, not more, complex. Pennsylvania, spring practiceless, played an intricate game last year against well-drilled Notre Dame. The score was zero to zero...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Rite of Spring | 1/30/1953 | See Source »

...artillery and mortar barrage of 2,500 rounds, the Reds overran an eastern-front position called Luke the Gook's Castle, were later beaten off. Both attacks served merely as harassments, but they helped to make the winter nights ugly for U.N. troops. Shivering in three-above-zero cold on the Imjin sector, an 18-year-old soldier from The Bronx said: "It's like any other night-just too damned long." Probably no soldiers on earth really prefer fighting at night, but the Chinese and North Koreans have good and obvious reasons for avoiding daylight assaults...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: Night & Day | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

...followed by freezing rain and falling temperature, reduced front-line fighting last week to its lowest scale since early October. On the frigid ridges of the central front, where the rain had put a glazed crust on four inches of fresh snow, the temperature dropped to 3° below zero. Enemy patrols were observed in white-clad camouflage. In a pre-dawn snowstorm, the Reds captured some frozen foxholes near "Old Baldy," slipped away after trading machine-gun fire with the allies for an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN KOREA: Frigid Ridges | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

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