Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since Adam, agricultural thinkers have longed for a magic wand to make weeds disappear. The trouble is that weeds and crop plants are much alike; one farmer's weed may be another's crop. Any wholesale killer is apt to wipe out both together...
...Yugoslavia, Marshal Tito jailed his only real opposition, scholarly Dragolyub Yovanovich, a lone "No" vote in a Communist Government. Yovanovich was charged with being a "spy" for the U.S. Some time ago Tito had said: "Those who persist in hindering the creation of a better future . . . will have to disappear from the face of the earth." Since Tito made this ominous threat a number of "spies" had been executed...
...zanne had studied hard, but had he learned, at 67, to paint intelligibly? Hardly anyone thought so. The old man scrawled the question once again. "Shall I ever reach the goal so eagerly sought and so long pursued?" he wrote. "A vague feeling of discomfort persists which will not disappear until I shall have gained the harbor, that is, until I shall have accomplished something more promising than what has gone before...
...legislators decide tomorrow to make Harvard pay this levy, her delicate financial balance will be upset. With this tax added to problems of decreased endowments and interest payments, the University will have to start stripping off scholarships, teachers, and facilities. Tutorial, already flimsy at its best, would disappear...
...cold will soon disappear,' he said, 'and there is nothing in this situation which a day of spring sunshine?and a compromise or two?will not blow away...