Word: disappearers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...save the temples, the Egyptian Government has recently appropriated some $60,000. But that, says Director General of Antiquities Etienne Drioton, is nowhere near enough. Unless many more thousands are spent soon, these great archeological relics, now precariously shored and buttressed, will disappear...
Meanwhile the U.S. press began playing at evasions, adding up small facts for its readers but stopping short of real information. Washington newsmen, who had watched Jimmy Byrnes, Harry Hopkins, Ed Stettinius, Judge Samuel I. Rosenman, and Anna Roosevelt Boettiger disappear frcm town, were nettled to read about it in Manhattan gossip columns. Picking up the ball, the New York Times's Cy Sulzberger cabled from Cairo that the Big Three were rumored to be already in session "in the Black Sea area . . . near the Soviet Union's southern borders...
Inaudible Christians. South of the Chavantes live the Bororos. Nominal Christians, they work on the farms of the Catholic priests who converted them, but frequently disappear on week-long hunting trips. Their big game is Brazilians, whose skulls they mash in the classic Chavante manner, in hope of laying the blame on their pagan neighbors. Brazilian frontiers men fear them more than they do the Chavantes, and wish that they had never been converted to Christianity...
...goes tumbling down atop it with bayonets ready to clear it. The men seem hurried, fast, awkward. About 3 o'clock we make out a long file of Chinese infantrymen crawling along through the undergrowth, still invisible to the enemy, 300 yards above them. Then they, too, disappear...
...straight facts. ..." Said Supervisor Robert Kennedy, in charge of building C-47s: "Yes sir, I learned a helluva lot." Said President Donald Douglas: "Most grievances grow from misunderstanding. When we learn how to analyze and understand the other fellow and his problems, most of our troubles and grievances will disappear...