Word: disappearers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...restrain themselves until a more critical moment. Once, at dinner, "Mrs. Dilling suddenly started to sing a mildly ribald song about a young lady and her fiance. Later she stuck her thumb into the air, 'snatched' at [it] with her left hand and made it 'disappear.' She laughed hysterically while she pinched her left...
Prestidigitator Lett will be Master of Ceremonies, applying his now-you-see-it, now-you-don't technique to a series of short snappy acts. Last month someone accused him of making a pack of cards disappear up his sleeve and to disprove it he made his sleeve disappear...
...means of spreading the news is monopolized. Another A.P. argument is that "if the news gathered [by] A.P. and its members were required to be made available to every one . . . the incentive of each member to contribute his time, effort and money to the upbuilding [of A.P.] . . . would disappear ." But A.P.'s main claim is that the suit threatens freedom of the press...
...world guarantee of freedom of the press" after the war, they may have meant imperialism, but the chances are better that they meant what they said. In February Brendan Bracken assured the Empire Press Union that, when the war ends, censorship and the Ministry of Information will disappear "overnight-certainly censorship will...
...lose, her true love, Colonel Vershinin; Olga, the eldest, is doomed to spend the dreary minutes of her existence as a high-school superintendent; and Irina, the youngest, hating her provincial life, no longer able to "remember the Italian for window or ceiling," sees her last chance for escape disappear when her fiance is killed in a duel...