Word: disappears
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moment in Holy the Firm when Annie Dillard watches a candle flame consume a golden female moth. The moth's abdomen catches in the wet wax and her wings "ignited like tissue paper, enlarging the circle of light in the clearing." Her antennae crackle, her legs disappear and her body is reduced to a glowing shell. "And then," relates Dillard, "this moth-essence, this spectacular skeleton, began to act as a wick ... She burned for two hours, until I blew...
...including blue and black ink, Blackley decided to start printing checks on red paper. When the checks were made out, the ink would be perfectly visible against the rosy-hued ground. But when the draft was microfilmed, he figured, it would become a blank; anything written or printed would disappear...
...hope with a good majority. Inflation, a drop in the real standard of living, no increase in our manufacturing output in three years, a taxation system so heavy that many ordinary people say there's no incentive to work-those sources of resentment [will not] disappear...
...fear of many of sociobiology's opponents is that it will prove nothing but leave a heavy political impact anyway. Sahlins fears it may disappear as a science but go on and on in the popular culture...
...very confident," she says. "I don't disappear." She goes to her office each day and continues to make last-minute changes on her autobiography, If at first . . ., which is due out in the fall. After firing two other attorneys, she has now settled on Roy Cohn, the onetime investigator for Communist-hunting Senator Joseph McCarthy. "1 know he is controversial," says Adela. "but he treats me like a human being." On 70 charges of second-degree larceny in the New York indictment alone, she could be sentenced to a total of 490 years in jail, not counting...