Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...power for a decade, are still considered the party of the well-to-do. They neatly evaded the problem of class in the Election of 1959 by running on a platform of material prosperity--implying rather crassly that if everyone were well-to-do, everyone's antagonism would disappear. This line has, of course, lost much of its appeal since Selwyn Lloyd's austere economic reforms, and Mr. Macmillan (who has grown vaguer and vaguer in the last two years) was content at the Brighton conference to substitute for "prosperity" a few irritating cliches about a "unified Britain...
Since January, the Weekly has pulled out of Sunday newspapers in five cities. It will shortly disappear from 21 more, in a deliberate retrenchment that will reduce its circulation from 8,544,535 to 4,000,000. When this is done, the Weekly will survive only in Chicago's American and nine Hearst Sunday papers-which will continue to take it because they have no choice. Having failed to remain first in a field of its own creation, Hearst's supplement' will henceforth run a distant last...
...5TRATOSPHERIC FALLOUT. The third kind of fallout-stratospheric-will not disappear so quickly. Bombs of more than a megaton of power send a large part of their ballooning fireballs climbing high into the stratosphere where there are no falling raindrops or snowflakes. In the frigid stable stratosphere, extremely fine particles of radioactive matter from a big bomb may hang suspended for years-and the bigger the bomb, the more of its dangerous fallout goes into the stratosphere...
...sense this is fortunate: while the deadly stuff is hanging many miles above the earth, its short-lived isotopes disintegrate and virtually disappear. But two of its most dangerous constituents, strontium 90 and cesium 137, would not fade into harmlessness even if they floated in the stratosphere for a century. And fact is that few fission products stay up nearly so long...
...produce sounds without distortion. A system which is completely faithful to the frequencies and relative intensities of the sounds played through it is nevertheless unbearable to listen to if it produces any appreciable distortion. On the oher hand, a system on which violins sound like flutes and bass drums disappear entirely, but which is entirely free from intermodulation distortion, will be very listenable...