Word: disappear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Like a thief in the night, Jesus will snatch up your loved ones. Little Billy and Mary will be taken from their beds, your husband may disappear without a trace. Engineers will vanish from the cabs of speeding trains, pilots from their planes. Those left behind will run frantically through the streets, meaning and tearing their hair." By this point, the crowd had reached a state of frenzied despair. "Oh Jesus spare me," screamed a white-haired old man. Several women in the fourth row were looking at a train schedule to see how soon they could leave town...
...time." Take Herbert Hoover now, on the other hand, he conceives things on a far more grandiose scale. In order to buy a small but unknown number of years of uneasy peace for the Americas, he is perfectly willing to let all other peoples of the world disappear into abject slavery behind the Iron Curtain...
...Jennings & Co., and eight smaller Chicago companies, who also turned out jukeboxes and other coin machines. With slot-machine production stopped, the companies hoped to take up the slack with war contracts and legal vending machines. But none of them expect all the slot machines to disappear from clubs and roadhouses overnight. They last a long time, and some clubs, anticipating the law, bought enough to last ten years...
...alternative is frightening. It is a future of phones that go dead when you answer them, of footsteps that echo yours and stop when you stop, of letters that disappear silently from your desk. The very napkin-holders will have ears, and even the maid will be tight-lipped and shifty-eyed as she goes over your room in the morning...
...abuses to which capitalism has given rise-abuses of liberty, abuses of property, abuses of all kinds, which have had the effect of leading the world to Communism. Communism is really not a cause. Communism is in effect a reaction against the capitalists, so that if Communism is to disappear, capitalism has to disappear first...