Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...professional journalist . . . must disappear." So must most sports news. So must big display ads, a hangover from prewar days "when capitalists tried to gain the favor of the newspapers." Papers should expand their editorial boards to check and recheck "each fact, each sentence, each word, before it is printed." Who would appoint the checkers seemed to go without saying...
Dozens of books disappear yearly under the arms of students who have forgotten to sign and leave the cards...
...Changing World. After November, what about the Dixiecrats? The chances are that they will disappear as a political entity. Having made their protest under the most dramatic circumstances possible -a presidential election-their well-to-do but amateur backers will probably return to their businesses. It is doubtful whether there are enough politicians in the party to keep it going after that. The chances are that the Dixiecrats will once again become indistinguishable from regular Southern Democrats. With the Northern Democrats out of power in Washington, the authority against which the Dixiecrats revolted will have been removed. All hands...
...blonde Russian wife. Of privileged financial big shots he once said: "If you do not scare them, they will scare you." Last week he had Shanghai's fat merchants badly scared. Before a cheering "Youth Army" audience Chiang declared: "It does not matter if pork and perfume disappear from the markets. So long as the people are not starved to death, it does not matter if all the department stores and big restaurants are closed . . . Our new economic policy is a socialistic revolutionary movement...
Television advertisers are busily knocking together a strange new world. It is a world in which oranges crack jokes, penguins smoke cigarettes, a Botany Mills lamb gambols about in a necktie, razor blades change themselves, and advertising symbols (e.g., Ballantine's three rings) appear and disappear with the ease of Cheshire cats...