Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...program to provide medical care for the aged under social security. In their claims and counterclaims, both sides seemed partly wrong. The King-Anderson bill, as the program is known, is unlikely to pass Congress this year, and maybe not next. But neither is it going to disappear-and it will certainly be around in November as a major election issue...
Dazzling Food. Once they reach Kowloon or Victoria, they are relatively safe, for the Chinese of Hong Kong are close and clannish and, in a crisis, do not desert their own. The refugees disappear into the life of the Hong Kong poor-grim by Western standards but, measured against Red China, a bit of paradise...
Readymade Giants. All European automen agree that competition has just begun. Some time before 1970, when all tariffs between Common Market members will finally disappear, the car population of Europe is expected to stabilize at about one car for every six people...
Cubism did away with Renaissance perspective, which, said Braque. "forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach." It also confirmed something that men had always known but rarely recorded: that objects seen close up tend to dissolve, fragment and multiply. This fragmentation, said Braque, "helped me establish space and movement in space. I couldn't introduce the object until I had created space...
...thought Biff, "I guess it's not a coffee-house." He watched Jane disappear and then turned away dejectedly. "I've miscalculated," he thought. He looked around him and saw students with happy faces walking to and fro. "Strange," he thought, becoming philosophical, "life is going on as usual, but right under our noses there is something horrible." It was four o'clock, and the afternoon sun was casting long shadows; the Yard looked oddly serene. Two students passed Biff and broke his reverie by speaking loudly...