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Word: zeros (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...series freshens the emblematic images of the nuclear age with rare footage and ironic juxtapositions, so that the viewer is more likely to look, and think, twice. Yet another mushroom cloud, at first almost a cliche, becomes surreal as Communist Chinese cavalrymen are shown charging toward ground zero as part of a training exercise, riders and horses wearing special masks to protect them against the blast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The History of the Bomb | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

...only other woman who weathered the 60-mile-per-hour winds and temperatures as low as 40 degrees below zero to reach the South Pole was also in Murden's party...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Div. Student Reaches S. Pole | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

After the initial Nanjing fracas, some 140 African and other foreign students were held under protective guard at a guesthouse for ten days. On Dec. 31, provincial authorities sent paramilitary police into the guesthouse to arrest "ringleaders" among the Africans. Armed policemen allegedly herded coatless students outside in zero-degree weather, then pummeled them and jabbed them with electric cattle prods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China The Fallout from Nanjing | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

...over the fruit's surface. But a worm could bore a tunnel through the apple, shortening the trip considerably. A wormhole in space is the same sort of tunnel; it is a shortcut from one part of the universe to another that reduces the travel time to just about zero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wormholes in The Heavens | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

Playing in 30 mph winds and wind-chill factors almost 20 below zero, Montana and Rice combined for two touchdowns and Montana threw a third to John Frank as the 49ers beat the Chicago Bears 28-3 to set up a rematch of their 26-21 Super Bowl victory over Cincinnati...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: San Francisco Dumps Bears, 28-3 | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

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