Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...white, and you're a civil rights worker, it's a good bet that meeting Charles Sims would be unpleasant. His grizzled face and scruffy clothes look engaging only from a distance; once you come close to the man, he stares you down, and you want to disappear. There is something hostile, even belligerant in his eyes. Without opening his mouth, he seems to be saying, "I don't like...
Call to Action. The odds are that the Government will now take tougher steps, though they may not be half as tough as some Negroes advocate. More states' rights will no doubt disappear, though not nearly as many as some Southerners will claim they have lost. Basically, the Government still hopes that Southern justice will so improve itself that drastic federal intervention will not be necessary. The hope is not entirely groundless...
Even if Smith does fall, Rhodesia's problems will not disappear. Its economy would then have to be resuscitated and its political system rebuilt, hopefully on the basis of a stable African majority government which could forestall the mass flight of whites with their skills and capital. But such a desirable outcome is far easier to prescribe than to achieve. The prejudices and fear of both whites and blacks, already great, will undoubtedly be fanned by Smith's rebellion. Southern Africa, so long forgotten in happy (for its whites) tranquility, has begun a time of upheaval...
...patented discovery within two years, after the continuing search for further uses or undesirable side effects has been completed. But even now, says the confident Laborit, "it would seem that one could say without being too optimistic, that pain in all its forms will be called upon to disappear while the patient maintains perfectly lucid consciousness. The pains of childbirth, the pains of dentistry, the pains of cancer-all should vanish from human life...
...everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation...God does not love weak souls and flabby flesh. The spirit desires to wrestle with flesh which is strong and full of resistance. It is a carnivorous bird which is incessantly hungry; it eats flesh and, by assimilating it, makes it disappear...