Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through the years, however, productions have become increasingly elaborate and today, at the Society prepares for the American premiere of Handel "Semele," it faces the problem of making the heroine disappear in a flash of lightning...
Googie architecture, says HOUSE & HOME, is "Modern Architecture Uninhibited ... an art in which anything and everything goes-so long as it's modern ... To the inventions of the modern engineer Googie adds all of Popular Mechanics, [including] walls that are hinged and roll out on casters, doors that disappear into the ground, overhead lights that cook the hamburger...
...year made an unsuccessful foray into China's Yunnan Province. They now number about 10,000 men. Said Burma's U.N. Delegate U Myint Thein: "We are doing all we can to get them out of the country, but every time our troops go into action they disappear over friendly borders or into the thick jungles and mountains . . . The People's Republic of China is alive to the . . . continued presence of what might be imagined to be the nucleus of an army for World...
Inside the perimeter is vast, antlike turmoil. Old roads are swallowed up overnight; new roads are unrolled. Gigantic machines gnaw through the hills, leaving wounds of bright red earth. Brooks flow no more; they disappear into pipes. "Here's how they build a road in there," said a numbed South Carolinian. "First come bulldozers tearing up the ground. Then come more machines smoothing it down again. Then comes the tar; then come the rollers. It all moves at a good smart pace. Behind comes a little man walking along, painting a white line...
...these are mutually dependent for their existence. Thus, when shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise, they ignore the fact that it is an economic support of every human right we possess and that, without it, all rights would soon disappear...