Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson is 1-2 for the year with an 11-9 victory over Penn earlier in the year. The Quakers, however, are a more experienced team, playing with a three goal handicap while Harvard has a zero handicap...
Milan was colder than Moscow, and Madrid turned into a skating rink, with first-aid stations set up to treat all the broken bones. A village in France's Lozère region shivered in the coldest temperatures ever recorded in the country -29.2° below zero Fahrenheit. Holiday skiers in the Swiss Alps found little joy in temperatures that reached -13° F. In Venice's Piazza San Marco, where makeshift bridges were set up two weeks ago so that pedestrians could negotiate the tide-flooded square, children skied and tossed snowballs. While Scandinavia was unseasonably warm...
...babies were born in the autos before their mothers could be rescued. Normally punctual French trains were canceled or delayed for up to six hours by frozen switches, and by the efforts of engineers who stopped to pick up stranded motorists in the open countryside. The sub-zero cold caused power shortages in Czechoslovakia and East Germany, and East Berlin streets were blacked out to conserve electricity. In Yugoslavia, where drifts reached 16 ft. on major highways and to the second floor of buildings in the city of Sarajevo, local papers spoke of "the white catastrophe...
ARKANSAS. Whether in 110° F. summer heat or winter cold, 16,000 acres of rich southeastern Arkansas land will always be tilled. This is the Cummins Prison Farm, where 200 convicts stoop in the vast cotton fields twelve hours a day, 51 days a week ? for zero pay. Such are the wages of sin in what may be the nation's most Calvinistic state...
...keep 'em down on the farm after they've seen Paree? No problem where Madame de La Tour du Pin was concerned. The Good Old Days did not look all that good to her. She rated Marie Antoinette high on courage, low on intelligence and zero on tact. Louis XVI resembled "some peasant shambling along behind his plough." As for her fellow aristocrats-"laughing and dancing our way to the precipice" -almost all had been "sublimely blind...