Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They indulge in rationales of why the inevitable will not occur. It is unthinkable, they tell each other, inefficient, illegal. One by one, they disappear, until only two are left, the doctor and an Austrian prince who has been brought in by mistake. The doctor convicts the aristocratic Gentile of unintended complicity with the whole monstrous crime. "It's not your guilt I want-it's your responsibility," the doctor thunders. Moments later, the prince hands the doctor his own white paper pass to freedom, and stands, erect and alone, facing the irate Nazi sadists...
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...
Eventually Lanier hopes to become selfsupporting, a worker-priest living off his earnings in the theater and television. He also hopes that ecclesiastical experiments, such as his theater mission, will lead to a revitalization of the church. "I think that the church as we know it has to disappear," he says. "We have to take seriously the New Testament, where it says that the leaven must be lost in the dough...
...such redevelopment. However, a tremendous hidden social cost is incurred, which accounts for much of the vociferous opposition to all renewal. When large, densely populated areas are cleared, many people and businesses are displaced. Most of these people are poor, and many belong to ethnic minorities. They do not disappear from the earth but, rather, crowd into other low-rental areas, creating new slums. But in many instances, the marginal businesses in the renewal areas do disappear. These businesses, often viable only because of low rents, are employers of the semiskilled and the unskilled, the selfsame people forced to relocate...
...local fairgrounds. Disgusted, Murphy wound up walking all the way to the fairgrounds, slogging to the speakers' stand through thick clouds of desert dust while Mrs. Tucker, in full pursuit, began to remonstrate with him. At length, Hollywood Star Wendell Corey, who had arrived early only to disappear mysteriously, turned up in time to make a half-incoherent speech about "my good friend and that great American, George Muffin!-I mean Murphy...