Word: disappears
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right direction." Adds John Kaplan, professor of law at Stanford: "It is going to take 30 years to resolve this problem. Even then you are never going to end all gun crimes. But you can substantially reduce the number of them by restricting guns, which gradually wear out or disappear. Once they are less available, fewer crimes will be committed with them...
...Opportunities must be seized or they will disappear." So said Henry Kissinger last week in his address to the new United Nations General Assembly, promising a vigorous U.S. effort to follow up on its recent diplomatic triumph in the Middle East. Yet last week the Secretary of State's peace cavalcade seemed to slow down...
...last day of the session. The ambitious document may well provide the guidelines for more than a decade of negotiations on the world's economic problems. Although it may be premature to expect the acrimony between the Third World and the West to disappear completely from U.N. forums, the tone and content of the resolution are far more conciliatory than anyone would have predicted even one month ago. The resolution, for example, contains more than two dozen references to the proposals made by the U.S. at the start of the session (TIME, Sept. 15), and it also draws heavily...
...leave his characters as rigid as snapshots. Like the subjects of most candid portraits, the Neumillers sometimes appear querulous and unfocused, refugees wrenched by the camera from the context of their lives. The stop-and-start chapters abort their growth and development; some family members are simply dropped or disappear inexplicably for hundreds of pages. Though they struggle with life's standard challenges and disappointments, the stolid Neumillers are rarely compelling enough to carry the massive burden of their saga...
...received his first intimation that the factory workers regarded him as someone apart. "After leaving school, I spent nine months here in apprentice training as a welder. I was 19 then, and when I was on the shop floor, I was conscious from time to time that everyone would disappear, and I would almost think that it was the end of the world and I was the only one left. They were just having a meeting, and someone was shouting and that was the beginning of the union. I didn't know what it was really going...