Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrary, he had tried to stop the Mau Mau, but his own arrest had unleashed the bloody uprisings. Like Archbishop Makarios on Cyprus, he disowned but failed to condemn terror. "I did as much as I could," said he. "I told my people to let the Mau Mau disappear like the roots of the fig tree...
...nationalists, banned an extremist white-settler newspaper as well as Tom Mboya's Uhuru (Freedom), which has been playing up Kenyatta as a national hero. The government insists that Kenyatta's simile was not meant to be innocent: the roots of the fig tree seem to disappear only because they go so deep...
...Some limit their seniors to one or two such classes, eliminates any possibility of Sophomore Standing. In addition, many high school teachers think advanced courses are merely intensive duplication of the usual fare, rather than presentations of new material. Wilcox expects the present reluctance to "push" promising students to disappear as the advantages of acceleration become widely known...
Also significant is the prospect of relieving congestion if busses and trolleys disappear and the Square ceases to be an all-day parking place for subway users. The improvement of service to outlying areas (currently there is only one train a day in each direction to Bedford) will greatly relieve the floods of automobiles that daily inundates Boston and Cambridge. The large parking and terminal facilities planned for the West Cambridge junction should also go a long way toward alleviating the Cambridge parking problem...
...were supposed to herald a trend -Invisible Man and World of Giants-have yet to find sponsors. Patti Page and Buddy Bregman, with their variety shows, will be dropped in March; Man with a Camera, a freelance photographer's adventures, was a flop from the start, will also disappear next month. Behind Closed Doors, a cloak-and-daguerreotype, is almost sure to follow. Even laughter is losing out in a dreary season: by May, Uncle Miltie Berle and the Kraft Music Hall part company as planned. George Burns, George Gobel. Ed Wynn, Jackie Gleason will be gone...