Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news from Singapore could not be much worse. Nothing short of a miracle can prevent the Japanese from capturing this "practically impregnable" fortress in a very few days, perhaps even hours. When Singapore falls, the last hope of a relatively short war against Japan will disappear, and America will have to climb down out of its cloud of wishful thinking and face the hard, cruel facts of a hard, cruel...
...tells a tantalizing little of its earlier 1,000-page version, which was far more so. The multitudinous data of Ulysses vibrated like cold made-lightning between the cathodes of the most fluoroscopic symbolism and the most granitic naturalism. In Finnegans Wake naturalism and the artist himself all but disappear; the book is a shimmering death-dance of chameleon-like symbols; an attempt at nothing less than a complete serio-comic history of human consciousness-in Levin's neat phrase, a "doomsday book," culminating in a Phoenician paradox of dissolution and resurrection...
...Many existing student organizations are sure to disappear during the present struggle, and to prevent the loss of their records, the officers are urged to deposit them now in the Harvard University Archives, on the top floor of Widener...
With this airy-fairy wave of the wand, Franklin Roosevelt ended his management-labor conference. He had to do something magical to make it disappear. The conferees had locked horns so dashingly over one basic point that the sound of their snorts and tramplings was beginning to be embarrassing. What the President had widely advertised as a peace conference was about to turn into a battle royal...
...illusion faded when the U.S.S. Kearny (rhymes with Blarney), a crack destroyer scarcely a year in service, was torpedoed. But the illusion did not disappear until the nation felt the dull visceral shock of reading its first casualty list of World War II, reading of its own men "The next of kin have been notified...