Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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History. Karl Marx believed and taught that the industrial proletariat was inherently revolutionary, that its numbers and miseries would increase, that its conflict with the capitalist class would intensify, that eventually it would be able to overthrow the "bourgeoisie," and that, after the revolution, classes would disappear in a new kingdom of freedom, and government would "wither away...
...just tinkering, but lately he has had no time for that and it has been taken over by his 16-year-old son Richard. Last summer Richard built himself a one-lung automobile in the basement shop. Said his father, with the characteristic wrinkled grin that makes his eyes disappear: "A good mechanic's job-and I didn't help him." His other son, Robert, 27, is a Chrysler research engineer. No seeker for a college degree, he went to work for Chrysler after high school. "I gave him a four-year college course in the shop," says...
...always, and panic, as always; there was a man who stole a Minneapolis girl's flashlight and a few members of the crew who crowded into lifeboats; there was an eleven-year-old boy who heard his small brother cry, "Jump, Mother, jump!" and then saw him disappear forever; there was a Houston girl who, tossed into the water, saw a man beside her "just gasp and die"; there was a baby carried down the gangplank wrapped in a seaman's green-&-white-striped jersey; there was John Hayworth of Hamilton, Ont., father of ten-year-old Margaret...
...they let us know through their Ambassador they were now contemplating whether and how far they were able to consider British proposals. . . . If it was possible to make the German Reich and its head of state take this . . . then the German nation would not deserve anything better than to disappear from the stage. . . . I have decided to speak to the Poles in the same language as they are speaking to us. . . . Our soldiers have been shot at, and since 5:45 we have been shooting back...
...voice in affairs that made his position unique. That he was there at all said much about him, more about British politics. Statesmen out of office make speeches in the U. S., particularly at college commencements; are shot in Russia, generally after confessing themselves allied to Jack the Ripper; disappear in Germany without having a chance to do that. But in Great Britain they may step back to the House of Commons, start over, criticize and mold Government policy by the weight of their experience-particularly if, as in the case of Mr. Churchill, events prove their judgment correct...