Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White House, at almost the same hour, Franklin Roosevelt released a "Dear Charlie" letter: "You have rendered outstanding service to your country. ... Of course, I have been aware of some dissension within the War Production Board. I had hoped it would disappear. . . . With reluctance I accept your resignation...
...lodges in the lymph glands, where it reproduces itself. First visible symptoms are painful swellings of an arm, leg or the scrotum. Doctors have been less alarmed than troops by the disease, because even with repeated infections, less than 10% of the cases develop elephantiasis, and symptoms usually disappear after return to a temperate climate. But the disease's monstrous effects on native sufferers, the fear of possible impotency, and the fact that symptoms may break out months after the disease is contracted, have made filariasis a serious psychological problem for the armed forces...
...Scapegoats. What war-worn Germans knew with terrible reality from Goebbels' speech and subsequent decrees was one crushing fact: the last vestiges of normal life were about to disappear. Theaters, cinemas, cabarets and concert halls, where men & women could forget a while, would be closed. The twelve-hour workday would become standard. The age limit for women required in industry would be raised from 45 to 50. Sixteen-year-old boys would be sent to the front after 60 days of training. Doctors were advised to be chary in issuing certificates of labor exemption for health reasons...
...anti-U.S. President Ramon Castillo was his muzzling of the press in December, 1941. It put him out of touch with Argentine public opinion, led to the unfortunate consequences from which the nation still suffered. Now, hoped La Prensa, the misunderstandings which conspired against hemisphere solidarity would disappear as the Argentine press recovered its right to express its opinions...
...peeress sang the words for the delegates near them.' Money vanished: while delegates up stairs in the Mt. Washington Hotel tried to conjure up world money, downstairs in a little bar (with a small orchestra and drinks at $1 a throw), Cardini the Magician made money disappear in his long fingers...