Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fish and Wildlife Service set up the Aransas Refuge on the Gulf Coast to provide a protected wintering place for the cranes. Each April, the birds head north over the Midwestern states, then disappear into their unknown nesting grounds in Canada. Each September the surviving birds return with an average total of four baby cranes. For years, bird experts have searched Canada by helicopter, on horseback, in jeeps and on foot, hoping to find the crane's nesting grounds and protect it from predators...
James Chace's In Winter; New England is the brighter star in this issue. Another chapter in the novel, Age of Michael, In Winter portrays the loneliness of several people as their life and friends disappear. In the context of the novel, this selection is enjoyable, but it suffers as a separate story because people enter and leave too abruptly and because the lack of adequate transitions between the thoughts of different characters often creates confusion. Chace is at his best when he records the impressions of Michael saying goodbye to his brother and of old, sick Mandy fighting against...
...also said that people with freckles and moles, and the swarthy, disappear as they grow older. They are not among those with the long life spans...
Will suddenly disappear from my anxious heart...
...said Truman, "if the Republicans don't wake up and reform it wouldn't surprise me if they never did win another national election." Some people, he went on, go around saying that the voters ought to support the Republicans this year lest the two-party system disappear. "This is an appeal to charity . . ." declared Harry Truman. "No party deserves to be kept alive just out of kindheartedness or charity...