Word: disappearers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Doctors agree that 1,500 calories a day (the U.S. Army gets 3,600) is rock-bottom if the body is to perform even the primary function of keeping alive. Below 1,500 calories the body begins to feed on itself. Fat layers between muscles and around vital organs disappear. Anemia sets in. As resistance is lowered, the system falls easy prey to tuberculosis, dysentery, blood poisoning...
William Randolph Hearst, 82, seemed to be getting all set. Columnist Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. snooped around San Simeon, Calif., reported workmen building "an atomic cellar for the stooped old gent to disappear into when the next great war comes along...
...faith, and believes in the spiritual resurrection from the dead, then too much emphasis upon the body which will soon disappear, is, in a sense, a denial of faith...
...assemble, "hang" and light. "I like to brood," sighs Mielziner, "and there's no time for brooding"-only 100-hour work weeks in which "one minute you're creating magic, the next minute you find yourself serving as a practical plumber or making a four-ton set disappear...
...been teaching for five and a half years when Sarah Lawrence's Sociologist Helen Merrell (Middletoivn) Lynd, out shopping for a college president, spotted him. He accepted-with one reservation: that he could have Thursdays off ("I simply disappear and write...