Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life gets fuller, the lure of gambling will diminish. People will find such challenge in their jobs, their families, their sports and their travels (so goes the argument) that it will not be necessary to resort to the artificial excitement of gambling, and that strange and beguiling itch will disappear...
...Viet Nam, the night still belongs to the Viet Cong. Under cover of darkness, they infiltrate men down the mountain trails from Laos and North Viet Nam, move supplies, farm their paddyfields, build their bunkers, position their troops and launch many of their attacks. During the day, they generally disappear, sleeping and hiding beneath thick jungle canopies, taking refuge in hillside caves or melting back into the "peaceful" civilian population. The U.S. has long tried to interdict the Communists' nighttime movements by regularly shelling and bombing trails and camps where their presence was suspected. Now it has launched...
Noting that King Bhumibol of Thailand had visited Massachusetts' Martha's Vineyard as a child, Lyndon Johnson allowed to the monarch during his recent visit to the White House that "some members of my Cabinet-some members of my staff-have been known to disappear into the fogs of the Vineyard for long stretches of time. Some of them even claim that the fog obscures not only land and sea but also the sound of the White House telephone." Added L.B.J.: "Secretary Katzenbach, I am carefully observing your reaction...
...away from, it is a place to stay in. If you go out, you're going to the barbarian outside, where there's nothing. Chinese culture is Sino-centric, and today the people are still concerned with what's going on inside the country. They wish the outside would disappear and not bother them. This is very different from a seafaring country including not only the Japanese, ourselves and the British--but all these countries around the world, particularly in Europe, who, living on peninsulas, became seafaring and voyaged afar...
...London town house. Says Palais General Manager Roger Boltz: "As long as there are people who want to live in a select and secluded environment or achieve visible social status-and this means until the end of mankind-places like ours have a function to fill. They will never disappear...