Word: disappears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were a philosopher. He discovered his mother's poems, kept in secret and sent to his father 20 years after their separation, and her letters: "I am glad that our son has no inclination to be a, soldier. . . . Barbarous customs that I hope will disappear when there are no Kings and no desire for conquest and when man has the world for his country and all his fellow-beings for brothers. You will say that I am dreaming...
...monsters promptly clapped the petulant Patriarch into jail. But none of this persecution made much change in the ingrained Christian faith of Russia's mystically minded millions of believers. Believers who harbored priests or attended worship might be deprived of their ration tickets, their jobs or might just disappear into jails or subArctic exile. They might not come together at all unless 20 believers risked registering with the local Soviet and received permission to worship. Still they came together for worship...
...Army's plan for higher permanent rank for its top men, some of whom (e.g., Clark, Kenney, Eaker) are still only lieutenant colonels in the regular promotion list, had hit a pesky snag. But Army men hoped that it would disappear in time-perhaps by the time Congress reconvenes...
Three of the five great powers will have disappeared. France has gone, and if ever she returns it will be a hard and a long upward pull for her to emerge again. Italy has completely disappeared and may never be a great power again. Germany will disappear. Germany, at the end of this war, will have disappeared perhaps never to emerge again in the old form. Nobody knows...
...reserve supply is nowhere near as big as it sounds: almost 100,000,000 gal. will disappear in "shrinkage" and evaporation before it gets bottled, another 100,000,000 gal. is being held as a last-ditch reserve for blending with new stocks, come peace. And around one-third of the remaining 200,000,000 gal. is not yet two years old. Whiskey consumption is at the rate of 87,000,000 gal. a year...