Word: disappear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Even millions of dollars of U.S. military equipment, like U.S. policy, has little if any compensating effect. Tons of it pile up each day at the docks and airfields, giving an impression of massive power, then disappear. One of the mysteries of Indo-China is how so much U.S. equipment can be dispersed so quickly and so unnoticeably." Parley in the Village. The erosion was almost too far advanced even for Ngo Dinh Diem, the firm-minded new anti-Communist Prime Minister of Viet Nam (TIME, June 28). Diem arrived in Saigon from Paris last week promising independence, land reform...
...retailers have found, does not want special handling, but he does want to be treated like any other shopper. The trend toward equality of purchasing power with whites is helping him find the same equality at the sales counter. Most retailers feel that even in Southern stores discrimination will disappear gradually, wiped out by the legal pressure against segregation and the economic rise of the South. Eventually, the Negro market will merge into and become undistinguishable from the overall market...
...Vice President Freeman Lewis estimated that unsold paperbacks numbered 175 million. By this spring, the "enormous pipeline." as one publisher put it, was hopelessly clogged. Said one publishing spokesman: "Most of this was hack stuff, trash. The public rebelled." No publisher and few readers wanted to see the paperbacks disappear. Along with the rubbish have come reprints of first-rate writing, e.g., Faulkner and Hemingway. Low paperback prices-in contrast with prohibitively priced hard-cover books-attracted a whole new reading public. Some publishers believe that the present shake-out is healthy, may restore some dignity to the paperback business...
...believe," he said, "the day of the small college, independent of the university, definitely to be over. Some of the well-endowed and fashionable ones may go on living for years, decades, but they will be fewer and fewer and eventually even the wealthiest of them are likely to disappear...
...reappear invariably when something else is sought. Craftier folk will attempt to stuff it into telephones, slot machines, parking meters, and the like, without notable success. At last, the aggravated token holder will trudge through the turnstiles once again, step from the platform, betwixt the sliding doors to disappear forever in the oblivion of a one-way trip to Jamaica Plain...