Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like to stockpile its cars, and the waiting time on delivery of a Rolls Silver Cloud has lately fallen from a year to four months or less. Since foreign sales still account for half the 2,400 Rolls and Bentley cars produced each year, the Rolls seemed unlikely to disappear immediately-and even if it did, Rolls-Royce, Ltd. would survive on its aeroengine business, which now accounts for 85% of the company's sales. But even the suggestion that Lloyd might destroy the most famed surviving symbol of British craftsmanship won Lord Kindersley some surprising allies. "My heart...
...worst, and even if the master negative should deteriorate, film technicians could reconstitute it from one of several sets of the "color strips" stored at widely separated points in the U.S. and Europe. Says an M-G-M executive: "There is no reason to think this film will ever disappear. It will be around as long as people remember the Civil War." Around, and making millions...
...fifth son of a peasant family. Adding details, he had "J.T.C." run away from home, pursue an actress to Barcelona, meet Picasso, invent Cubism ("It's simple. Before, pictures were seen from the outside: now they are seen from the inside"), explore Abstractionism, then abruptly disappear from Paris in August...
...Four young punks stone a kitten to death and, when the wardrobe men protest, beat them up and break their mirror. When the closet-horses lie down to rest, a watchman drives them away with a stick. Heads bowed, they carry their burden back to the beach and quietly disappear into...
...through an elaborate series of conference committee compromises, with no one realizing its implications. Then, educational institutions discovered that they would have to administer the oath and affidavit themselves and the campaign for repeal began. The act is up for renewal this year, and 1001 (f) will not disappear quietly. If the academic community wants to get rid of the affidavit (it is apparently willing to live with the oath), it must exert even more pressure than it did last year...