Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...girl does not complain of fatigue, although she has carried a thousand loads; nor does the boy feel the chill in the mud. It is not convenient to talk to each other, but they understand each other at heart. Both are heroic fellows. They work until the stars disappear and the sun rises...
...deer season lasts for eight days; in the first four, Wisconsin counted four hunters dead of gunshot wounds, six of heart attacks. At season's end, the hunters and their red shirts disappear abruptly from Hurley's streets, vanishing southward into workaday anonymity. The girls drift away, and Hurley reverts to its somnolent tween-season existence as an iron-mining town...
Virus particles have been found in some human cancers, but this does not prove that they caused the disease. Some tumor viruses invade an animal, yet they disappear for months or years, and then belatedly cause cancer. The hows and whys of this latent period are unknown. One partial explanation may lie in the ability of new "provirus" particles to remain undetected in cells, doing no evident damage until they are stimulated by chemicals or X rays. The important thing is that these nucleic-acid molecules can be infective by themselves, with no assist from the protein that normally accompanies...
...could portray sadness or loneliness, but never great grief. Sisley was drawn not to the powerful but to the perishable; he was moved not by stormy passion but by quiet poetry. His favorite part of any landscape, he said, was the sky: "It has the charm of things which disappear. And I love it particularly...
Most industry observers predict that the economy idea will eventually spread to other major domestic airline routes. When that happens, coach service is likely to disappear-as it did last year on North Atlantic runs-leaving only first-class and economy. Many an airline executive argues that this will achieve nothing but a decrease in passenger revenue. But burly Bob Six disputes this. Says he: "The only way to broader markets and higher profits lies in lowering certain jet fares to the level of surface transportation...