Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HUAC seems to think that the smaller Communist party gets, the more it is," Frank observed. "One these days the party is going to disappear entirely and take over the country...
...year-old grade-schoolers all over the U.S. The latest social discovery of the pre-teeners. particularly popular in the nation's suburb-nests, is "making out," a tentative version of adolescent necking: the boys and girls get together at somebody's home, and the parents discreetly disappear, leaving the room darkened and the boys at liberty to "make out." Pre-teeners in Los Angeles have developed a modern version of the post-office and spin-the-bottle kissing games. They call it "Seven Minutes of Heaven (or Hell)." The boy takes the girl who is "it" into...
Djilas himself, a toughly honest man, seemed less worried about his safety. As he wrote in the book: "The truth is breaking through, even if those who are fighting for it may disappear in the process...
average of 3.87?). What was hard to swallow was the realization that if Beech-ing succeeds in adapting to modern needs and techniques a 50,000-mile network designed for the 1880s, scores of branch lines and hundreds of its 7,000 stations will disappear. The last of the beloved "puffing billies" will yield to gaseous diesels or electric locomotives, and the aromatic privacy of the old first-class passenger compartment will give way to open, air-conditioned cars with central aisles, airliner seats and Muzak...
Grotesque Reality. The amusements of youth suddenly disappear, and the only laughter that remains is in echoes from the past. The shift in tone is perhaps explained by the fact that the novel is autobiographical in part, but De Vries makes no apology. The dramatic departure from the comic is one of the grotesqueries which, De Vries says, "are too strong for the delicate stomach of Art but in which reality abounds, as though life itself enjoys laughing down the aesthetic proprieties...