Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...erratic, unreliable, and one of the weakest strongmen who ever stumbled into power. Wild-eyed Patrice Lumumba, though clubbed by his foes and languishing in jail, disconcertingly continued to command wide loyalty, not only among the Congolese, but also among other African leaders as well. Since Lumumba refused to disappear politically, U.S. strategists concluded that he could no longer be ignored. Last week, after summoning U.S. Ambassador Clare Timberlake for urgent consultations, Washington seemed prepared to throw its weight behind a sweeping new proposal of U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold...
This is a misleading generalization because flushing and itching disappear, except in very few cases, after the first days of treatment, and transient nausea and headaches are encountered infrequently. Changes in the blood have, to my knowledge, not been reported. On the other hand, from your report one gains the impression that a restriction of fat intake will always lead to a significant lowering of blood cholesterol. This is not the case, and it is especially in refractory cases that nicotinic acid has proved its value. Nicotinic acid is not indicated for cooperative patients whose blood cholesterol responds to dietary...
...Overall, this meant a loss of one-fourth of the U.N.'s manpower. The withdrawals would clearly favor the pro-Lumumba rebels already in control of more than 30% of northern and eastern Congo, and anxious to extend their influence once the U.N. roadblocks disappear. In Stanleyville, Antoine Gizenga's pro-Lumumba forces held 300 hostages, prepared to shoot them if Lumumba should die in his Katanga jail; Gizenga now was getting regular arms shipments from Cairo, trucked in overland via the Sudan. To the south, Lumumbaman Anicet Kashamura clung to Kivu province, where his troops stole cars...
...taste of the late 1940s in neglecting these novels on original publication may have been sound, for Snow's characters are the sort who disappear the minute the author takes his eyes off them. Even cultists who cozy up with these 814 pages may find themselves merely Snowbound and Snowblind. And yet Snow seems to touch a nerve in 20th century readers-perhaps because he evokes with easy assurance the intellectual and social history of the '20s and '30s; or perhaps because his concept of life as a conspiracy in quest of power has a timeliness...
Still, when they danced, it was a delight to hold Eugenie, and later, she gave him a devastating good-night kiss. As Wellington watched the shapely form disappear behind the closing door, he reflected on the vagaries of life. "I suppose one must learn to compromise," he mused. As he stood there thinking, his hands unconsciously made the sign of an hour-glass. Wellington started at the airy figure he had drawn, shrugged his shoulders, and went home...