Word: disappears
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hitters who have faced the fearsome fastball of Oakland A's Pitcher Vida Blue tend to endow it with out-of-this-world qualities. Roy White, the otherwise stable outfielder for the New York Yankees, claims that the Blue darter "speeds up on you and then seems to disappear." Kansas City Royals Third Baseman Paul Schaal swears that "it jumps right over your bat." After his world champion Baltimore Orioles were beaten by Blue in two straight games, scoring only one run in 18 innings, Manager Earl Weaver had a more logical explanation. "I think I have the answer...
...museums will reverse the trend toward ever-increasing prices for works of art. In the meantime, I like to think that most Americans feel a sense of joy and enrichment in having this great Velázquez come to this country and realize that its price tag will eventually disappear...
...terrible fits of depression. "Age and chagrin have worn me out," he wrote to his friend Georges Clemenceau, former Premier of France. "My life has been nothing but a failure, and all that's left for me to do is to destroy my paintings before I disappear." Painters have often guessed wrong about their achievement; none guessed worse than Monet. He is, in fact, the only Impressionist other than Manet and Seurat whose work has consistently seemed relevant and useful to modern painters. One cannot imagine an artist "learning" from Renoir today. The difference is one of radical intent...
...thought, culture and customs that brought China to where we found her must disappear. The thought, customs and culture of proletarian China, which does not yet exist, must appear...
...probably one out of every ten-suffer at various times from cold sores. Produced by the herpes simplex virus, the unsightly sores appear on the lips, around the eyes or even on the genitals, and can cause swelling and considerable discomfort before they run their two-week course and disappear. Doctors have been able to do little for most cold-sore sufferers except minimize their discomfort with soothing medications. But now a team of dermatologists at the Baylor University College of Medicine in Houston has developed a treatment that promises to relieve herpes infection and reduce recurrences...