Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...content to live simply and anonymously. Rayon, on his trail, said he felt sorry for Paulo, bought him a drink, and told him the truth. The young heir said he was not surprised, and added, "I don't care about their filthy money." But he agreed to disappear for a time...
Modern science's view of antimatter as oddly charged particles that disappear on contact with matter has some connection, Dali thinks, with the medievalists' view of angels, which could light in hosts upon the point of a pin. His new canvas relates to both concepts. Seen close, it does dissolve into pure abstraction-as abstract, say, as the goings-on in a physicist's cloud chamber...
Tito, in a torrent of aggrievement, wondered: "Why such fierce attacks from the Chinese? Do they perhaps want to show their monolithic character and the strength of their 600 million by making Yugoslavia, at their mere shout, disappear as if it never existed?" Tito guessed that there was a quite different reason for the attacks, "but they dare not say this...
...trapped by the earth's magnetic field. The strength of the radiation belt is probably variable, like the amount of water in a leaky bucket that is filled at irregular intervals. When the sun is quiet, the particles in the belt gradually leak down to the atmosphere and disappear perhaps causing the aurora. The belt grows weaker and weaker until a new transfusion of particles from the sun makes it strong again...
...ugly that girls ran away when he passed by on his great black horse. As it turned out. Angélique and the lame count hit it off famously, but the count dabbled in alchemy and was burned at the stake, leaving Angélique to disappear, nameless and forgotten, into the reeking underworld of 17th century Paris...