Word: disappearers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agile, almost dainty voice of Clement Attlee, gently remonstrating: "After all ... you can't expect all the problems of that war, and a good many left over from the first world war, to disappear overnight...
...difficult for any liberal to make, it can only be hoped that the magazine will not in the future hedge on issues. For if the "Progressive" attempts to become all things to all men by declining to fight for its political ideals, its fundamental reason-for-being will disappear...
...swing to socialism in Great Britain and elsewhere in the world, and candidly said: "Canada has already witnessed the birth and steady growth of its own social democratic party, the CCF." As the trend continues, the Citizen said, one or the other of the older parties will either disappear or will coalesce. Then the CCF "will assume ... its position as the 'other' major political party in Canada...
...Department does not think that all U.S. elms will die of disease, as did nearly all chestnut trees a generation ago. It does believe that the Gothic elm avenues in many towns will disappear, and it advises city landscapers that elms arc poor investment...
Koestler's deadpan, newspaper style of writing, with its emphasis upon understatement, suggests impartiality and permits objective writing, as in the courtroom and 1939 riot chapters, to gain great emotional force and a continual atmosphere of tension. Unfortunately, Koestler's people disappear just as they begin to become interesting as individuals, but what they have to say and think is vivid and unmistakable. For "Thieves in the Night" is more than mere debate. It is essentially a remarkably exciting narrative presentation of a political philosophy on a high intellectual level that should have appeal for all readers, whether...