Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While our plane came in for a landing, Siberia loomed as a forbidding vista of seismic scars and snowcapped mountain ranges. Our destination: a tiny pioneer village aptly named Alonka (wasteland). The temperature: 50° F. below zero. On even chillier days, the cold at Alonka becomes literally audible: the moisture of exhaled breath freezes instantly, and the colliding crystals make a rustling sound. The Jeep-like vehicles used by the construction crews had quilts on their hoods; at a bridge construction site, workers were busy "cooking" concrete in warm elevated shacks before pouring it into foundations. The bridge, begun...
...followed up the fighting. I would like to put this on record as a point of historical significance insofar as the Soviet Union claims to champion the Arab cause. Soviet satellites did keep a watch over the battle from the start, for Syria had informed the Soviet Union of Zero Hour. The recordings made were played to the [Soviet] Central Committee. I asked for a copy of that videotape but have received no reply to this day and won't receive any. Israel, even without demanding it, received hourly information from the Pentagon, provided until this moment...
...Corp. to supplement supplies during New England's chilly winters. But from next week on, one of a fleet of nine El Paso tankers will deposit LNG at Cove Point roughly every 60 hours. There, the supercold liquid, which arrives at a temperature of 259° F. below zero, will be heated until it turns back into gas, then piped through the networks of Columbia Gas System and Pittsburgh-based Consolidated Natural Gas Co. to 7 million Eastern customers...
Almost everyone has heard of zero population growth and zero-base budgeting. To judge by last month's On the Twentieth Century and last week's Timbuktu! Broadway is rapidly nearing ZQM-zero quality musicals...
...Angel (Ann Wedgeworth) and Portland Angel (Marcia Rodd) compare their "mutual" husband's bedside manner over drinks--many, many drinks. Wedgeworth's naive and honest persona and Rodd's cool, assertive character play off each other perfectly; both actresses are accomplished in their timing and facial expression. Not since Zero Mostel and Phil Silvers in A Funny Thing... have a duo coordinated their deliveries so well...