Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early 1920s, but it would be helpful to think of it as a book that might very well have been written by an Anglo-Saxon chronicler about the 4th century A.D., just before the last Roman legion was to leave Britain; when Roman law was about to disappear and leave a crude, illiterate people to deal as best they could with Celtic chaos, superstition and the flickering light of Christianity. Modern Nigerians oppressed by a feeling of culture lag may optimistically reflect that the natives of Britain had in their future a Shakespeare, a St. Paul's Cathedral...
...political situation has had serious repercussions on Athens University. All professors have lost tenure and may be fired by government decree. As the underground resistance movement grows, more and more of their students are arrested and disappear. Rumor has it that a certain specified number of military officers' sons and daughters will henceforth be admitted to the University automatically, regardless of their scores on the stiff admissions rest. This should ensure the presence of a vigilant and militant pro-government faction in the University and, ultimately, a reactionary educated group to take power in the government...
...line is a fine legal one, and it understandably tends to disappear for most jurors, who, try though they will, cannot consider the defendant's veracity in light of his convictions, and then ignore the convictions while considering his guilt. The pragmatic result for many defendants has been to pass up the chance to testify rather than risk having a previous criminal record emerge...
Last June, still working as research director emeritus at the Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Page spent a full day working on project reports. That evening, he suddenly felt as if he had a fire in his chest, "much stronger than heartburn," he recalls. "The pain tends to disappear when you hold your breath hard and bear down. I knew I'd had a heart attack. In the four months since then, I've experienced first hand the problems that I'd been studying for years...
...Dylan's landscape, time exists only as "a foggy ruin." Natural clocks stop. "Darkness at the break of noon...the child's balloon eclipses both the sun and moon." Historical sequences disappear. Dylan discovers America, collides with a bowling ball and a girl from France, and, as he leaves, meets Columbus in search of land. Historical reference points dissolve in a montage. Einstein apeaprs disguised as Robin Hood, sniffing drainpipes and reciting the alphabet. "With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves/ let me forget about today until tomorrow...