Word: disappear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Western diplomats could not believe that the Yugoslav dictator dared carry out his threats, but the nagging question would not quite disappear: Would...
...India and other Asia-African nations persist in bringing up motions to condemn South Africa's bitter apartheid (racial segregation). Said Malan: "The U.N. is a failure, a cancer eating at the peace and tranquillity of the world. Unless it is radically reformed, it should disappear from the face of the world...
What about the Galloway? Back in Kansas City, Ike addressed the Hereford Association in a folksy chat that wowed the cattlemen and revealed the President as something of an authority on cows. "You know." he told his audience, "the old scrub cattle on the prairie began to disappear when I was a very young boy. There were all sorts of new breeds appearing-short horns. Angus, the white face and the Galloway. Whatever happened to the Galloway? He was a big black cow, you know, bigger than the Angus, and sort of woolly-haired...
...words for some local Communists. As he warmed to his work, he exclaimed that the Communist Party is Guatemala's "most decent, most honest, most disciplined and most patriotic." Finally, carried away, Paco blurted out that his own party, PAR. is "only a party of transition . . . destined to disappear into the great world Communist Party...
...took more than ten years before the French government finally admitted that Cayenne "does not appear to have any deterrent effect upon the criminals" and was "not good for the prestige of France in [the American] continent." In 1938 the government announced its intention to let the penal colony "disappear by extinction." Red tape, lassitude and the demands of World War II slowed down the process, but last February the government decided to bring home the last convicts and libérés. Last week Théodore Roussel, a freed man who had spent more than...