Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...smaller, dimmer and dimmer. I knew that it was not going to go out completely unless I allowed it to-and of course I didn't want it to. But Dr. Houston kept insisting, and gradually I was able to relinquish my hold as I watched it disappear, leaving only vast, empty blackness. I felt no panic. I was resigned, but enormously sad. The sorrow increased as I looked into the blackness, and I was aware of tears flowing hard. Eventually I had to restrain myself from sheer bawling. I knew objectively that I was sitting there alive...
FROM THIS follows Slater's description of a major rule in our lives-the Toilet Assumption. The Toilet Assumption is "the notion that unwanted matter, unwanted difficulties and obstacles will disappear if they are removed from our immediate field of vision." Our approach to social problems, he says, is to decrease their visibility. Thus, we see the populace angered at press and mass media for keeping unwanted difficulties in front...
...which the haves combine to help the havenots. The idea had been advocated by reformers for some time, against the objections of critics who argue that if the U.S. was going to spend all that money, it should at least be clearly labeled as coming from America and not disappear into some international pool. But the President approved Peterson's proposal, agreeing that U.S. interests would be best served if international lending agencies, and not the U.S., disburse most of the tax dollars that Congress appropriates. Nixon warned that an increase of U.S. aid will be required...
...particles that appalled Cousteau and his crew aboard the Calypso. "People do not realize that all pollution ends up in the seas. The earth is less polluted. It is washed by the rain which carries everything into the oceans, where life has diminished by 40% in 20 years. Fish disappear. Flora too." He especially decried the ecological effects of "brutal" modern fishing techniques. "The ocean floors are being scraped. Eggs and larvae are disappearing. In the past, the sea renewed itself. It was a continuous cycle. But this cycle is being upset. Shrimps are being chased from their holes into...
...obsolete Liberty Ship loaded with nerve gas will sink to the bottom of the ocean off the Bahamas today. And one of the many monuments to former Radcliffe President LeBaron Russell Briggs will disappear forever...