Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...balance and cause violent nausea, severe vertigo and progressive deafness. First recorded in detail by a 19th century French ear doctor, Prosper Meniere, the disease has been attributed to a variety of causes-cysts, tumors, allergy, arterial spasms, bacterial or viral infections, even psychological factors-and tends to disappear with the passage of time...
...endure the system without protest live peacefully enough. For those who rebel there is the palmatória-a stout, flat bat with holes in it. A dozen sharp blows of the palmatória on the open palm leave welts and blisters that last for weeks. Persistent troublemakers disappear quietly to the labor camps of São Tomé, Portugal's little island prison in the Gulf of Guinea...
...rain may never fall till after sundown, By eight the morning fog must disappear. And again, much later, as royalty asking What Do Simple Folk Do?-and whistling, singing, dancing by way of answer-they are appealingly gay. But too often Camelot's gaiety grows flip or desperate, as its more serious scenes seem faint. And in time Julie Andrews, however engaging, seems no Guinevere, as Robert Goulet, however nice his voice, was never Lancelot; and King Pellinore becomes a chattering burden in the court and Morgan le Fay a darting disaster in the forest. Richard Burton, playing Arthur...
...emphasized, however, that De Gaulle is "indispensable" and that there is "no alternative" to his government as long as the fighting continues. "It is better," he added, "that De Gaulle not disappear until the crisis is over...
...lead narrowed, all the Crimson's talents seemed to disappear. The sharp passing became wild, the tight defense became lazy and foul-prone, and the shooting was terrible...