Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finely worded doctrines, charters, manifestoes and reports have only served to implement Mr. K.'s inch-by-inch plan for conquest. If Mr. Kennedy doubts this, then let him inquire of Nehru how fast-and easily-a border can disappear...
...time being. St. Louisans may view Nagel's bonanza at the City Art Museum, where, because Cézanne painted it upside down in relation to the other portrait, it is being displayed in a flipover frame. Ironically, the long-hidden Cézanne will eventually disappear again: to preserve the more valuable work, a new canvas liner will have to be glued back in place. But doing so will be painful. To many art lovers the unfinished portrait of the peasant woman has more warmth of life than the later, bolder Artist's Sister...
...Later, in the 17th and 18th centuries, taste turned more and more to fixed wall decoration-marble, gilded woodwork, monumental paintings -and tapestry began to take a second place. Ironically, just as great technical advances were being made in the art of weaving, the spirit of originality began to disappear, and tapestry largely became a slavish imitation of paintings-often complete with their own ornate "gold" frames woven around their borders. With the exception of a few independent weavers working on their own, little worth while was loomed until recent years...
...unattractive breed are plaguing the Federal Housing Administration these days. Known as "the walkaways," they are people who find themselves unable to meet their mortgage payments-and to solve the problem simply move out their belongings at night, drop their house key in the mailbox and disappear. In West Texas, largely because of walkaways, the Federal Government currently has 1,800 repossessed houses on its hands. In seven South Florida counties, walkaways have abandoned 3,000 FHA-guaranteed homes in the past twelve months...
...least two beneficial results: 1) it has helped meet the growing demand for trade credits among Western nations; 2) it has discouraged foreign banks from converting their dollar balances into U.S. gold, and thus has eased the drain on Fort Knox. The Eurodollar, most experts agree, will gradually disappear if U.S. interest rates rise to European levels, or the U.S. payments deficit ends...