Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Call a physician to examine all cases of snow blindness. Barring any complications, the acute symptoms will disappear in six or eight hours, and most of the visual discomfort will be gone within 48 hours...
...McNamara's "explanation;" they seem, in fact, nearly inconsequential. The United States cannot end the South's civil war by bombing North Viet Nam. It is academic to argue, as the Administration repeatedly has, that Ho Chi Minh "started" the rebellion. The rebellion now exists, and it will not disappear, even if North Viet Nam is methodically bombed into military impotence. And, though air strikes may win the Saigon government several days of peace, they can never win the regime political stability...
...matter. On a basketball court, where a simple shout of "Contact!" is enough to bring everything to a halt these days, or on a crowded dance floor, where couples scrambling among the fruggers' feet have become as essential as crepe paper at any successful prom, lost lenses simply disappear. Otherwise, they get wafted down drains, into swimming pools, off ski slopes. They are lodged between the pages of books, the coils of radiators, the seats in movie houses, never again to be seen or to afford sight. Moreover, the new lenses easily get stuck, one inside the other...
...Justice John C. Bell Jr. of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. If it is "muzzled or gagged, crime will run even more rampant." Added Justice Michael A. Musmanno: "Curbing crime news is like recommending that no one talk about cancer, on the theory that silence will cause cancer somehow to disappear...
Since 1961, the U.S. has poured some $780 million into Brazil only to see most of it disappear down the Amazon. The prospects became so disheartening that Washington aid to the wobbly, leftist regime of João Goulart gradually dwindled to a trickle. Last week, after eight months spent in careful observation of the revolutionary government of President Humberto Castello Branco, the U.S. announced that it is ready to try again with $453 million, a package that makes Brazil the greatest U.S. economic-aid beneficiary of any nation except Pakistan and India. With the addition of expected funds from...