Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...save others. "A stained-glass window didn't seem like the right thing for our mother. So I asked May how she would like to establish a clinic. She asked how much it would cost. I said about $15,000. She says now I should have put another zero on that. It was nearer $150,000 before we'd finished...
Said Designer Marcel Rochas before the spring fashion openings in Paris: "I feel at zero hour, ready for a fresh departure." That was what Paris needed if it was to regain its place as fashion leader of the world. This week, glimpsing the first pictures of the spring fashions, U.S. women could decide for themselves just how fresh a departure Paris had made...
There's no relief for those wind-burns you've been nursing on your way to classes. The Weather Bureau sees only zero weather and biting winds for the weekend...
...brutal battleground. The temperature dipped as low as 52° below zero. Soldiers clad in nearly 25 Ibs. of special Arctic clothing, carrying another 34 Ibs. of special equipment, crawled through waist-deep snow, over hummocks of frozen muskeg. For hundreds of miles on every side stretched trackless pine forests and mountains. Said one corporal: "Anybody who'd invade this Godforsaken place is just plain damn wacky...
...more food for the rest of the family; thus the climax can come at either one of the two deaths. As for the acting, the German east seems to lack a familiarity with the warm, off-hand touches of Rossellini's style. The most important thing about "Germany Year Zero" is its implication that selectivity is at work, that the only survivors of such desolation will be another strong and heartless race. You can't help fearing such a race--a nation of men who had no childhood...