Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Social Welfare: "Despite propaganda that all the social ills have been legislated out of existence, we know that the realities of life are still tough, harsh and disheartening for many Americans. These ills cannot be abolished by the mere passage of a law, but they will disappear in an America whose men & women understand that not one of us-whatever his position-can stand alone, and that all of us, bound in spiritual unity, are injured by any injury...
Thus German spies combine meticulous exactitude with an unfailing rigidity of method. During World War I, for example, they made the brilliant discovery that a message written in acetic acid on the outside of an egg would disappear, once the egg was boiled, into the inside. The Allies caught on to this trick; but 25 years after, in World War II, the Germans were still using the boiled-egg device. The British, on the other hand, depended so much on their brilliant powers of improvisation that they often neglected the simplest details. Pinto, who used to inspect British agents before...
Overstreet's remedies verge on the fatuous ("If we could grasp what other persons are saying ... the major hostilities of life would disappear") and the contradictory ("It is out of the vast amount of sheer unbalance in the economic life that the major hostilities of men have arisen...
...July 31, their friends below saw them disappear into the clouds that hid the sky-cutting edge of The Butcher...
Nevertheless, he still gets a slight tightening of the stomach before he goes into action. "It's like waiting for a funeral," he says. Once the meet begins, his nervous twinges disappear. He moves with disciplined relaxation; even at the finish line his face shows only concentration, with none of the agonized contortions of a last-ounce effort. As the competition gets keener, the only apparent effect is to key his reactions a bit tighter and sharpen his sense of timing. "When the pressure's on," he says, "I like it best." Between events, while other athletes trot...