Word: disappears
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Front government of the mid-'30s. One could expect a decline in business confidence and a rush to get assets out of the country, including the billions of francs stashed away in mattresses. Despite Mitterrand's comforting promises, the residual fears of the left will not quickly disappear. Outside France, Communists in the Cabinet of a major West European power would give Communist parties in other nations legitimacy that they have been seeking since World War II. In this sense, a Mitterrand victory could be a serious challenge to all of Europe as well as France...
Only last month United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim returned from a tour of drought-stricken African states and declared that several of the six nations of the Sahelian strip just beneath the Sahara could literally disappear as a result of the devastation spread by a six-year dry spell. Last week, in landlocked Niger, a military coup toppled the democratic government that President Hamani Diori, 57, had conscientiously administered since he led his people to independence from France in 1960. Though the coup was largely bloodless, three people were reported killed, including Diori's wife, who was shot...
...cost as much as the Storm King facility will, a company spokesman was eager to deny yesterday that the utility's current financial problems would have any effect on the construction. The utility's difficulty, he said, lay in its immediate cash situation. Con Ed apparently expects this to disappear before payday rolls around for its construction crews...
...people one meets on campus nowadays. These are industrious, idealistic students, determined to make, in their chosen fields, a personal contribution, however small, toward some notion of justice or public interest. They have their goals firmly in mind and pursue them with unwavering competence. After graduation they will disappear down the ferret-holes of success, to emerge later as brilliant lawyers, famous doctors, great musicians, and conscientious artists. It is enough to make you sick...
...second Chile is the shadow country in which people who talk too much or ask too many questions simply disappear. Santiago, once a lively capital, is curiously silent these days. Serious matters such as politics and high prices are never discussed on the telephone. Early this year a military patrol passing through a field near the capital asked a question of a campesino. The farmer touched his cap and answered, "Si, señor." He should have said, "Si, Señor Comandante." He was arrested for lack of respect to the army and, according to a lawyer familiar with...