Word: disappeared
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With the obsolescence of the No.2 pencil, one of this nation's major industries will certainly collapse. Graphite production will disappear except for the minuscule amounts needed for lock lubricants. Lumber yards will fall silent as thousands of glistening yellow and blue No.2 pencils with their red rubber erasers sit idly on stationers' shelves...
Looking out of the window, this seems true. Two teens with elaborate hairdos and gum-cracking grins joke in Spanish with a Black man. An Asian man and woman disappear into Ryles' Jazz Bar. A lesbian couple chats with the local...
...three matches the Crimson held a lead through the first five bouts, only to see the advantage disappear through the final five matches. In the three dual meets combined, the Crimson went 10-5 in the 118-pound to 150-pound weight classes, but managed to win only two of 16 bouts in the 158-pound to Heavy-weight divisions...
Most of these genetic problems would disappear if Americans could somehow be persuaded to abandon purebreds in favor of mutts. While individual mixed-breed dogs have problems, the animals on average are a lot healthier than their high-class cousins. "Mutts are the Hondas of the dog world," says syndicated animal columnist Mike Capuzzo of the Philadelphia Inquirer. "They're cheap, reliable and what nature intended in the first place. They are what you would get at a canine Club Med if you left them alone for six years." There are "breeds" in the mutt world, just as there...
...solution is not, as Newt Gingrich would maintain, to slash funds for welfare and place the children of single mothers in orphanages. The problem of poverty is a real one, and the Republicans cannot make it disappear merely by ignoring the depth of the crisis. People sometimes need help, and it is the obligation of any humane, civil society to provide...