Word: poof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...supposed to win.' If I lose, they will say I let them down. I don't want to make alibis, but I tell you that in skiing, it takes nothing to lose. The wrong wax oh the skis, a spot of soft snow, a slight miscalculation and-poof!-the race is over. I can only do my best. That...
...lunar life until his supplies of Scotch and oxygen dwindle. Then he walks into his Zen garden in the rays of the waning earth and commits hara-kiri by slitting his space suit. Since there is no atmosphere on the moon, the results are spectacular: with a sodden poof, Dr. Kanashima dissolves into "clouds of elementary particles hurled into space at a mile a second...
...sort of Our Town story as Kafka might retell it. A dusty, creaky, self-important postmaster rubber-stamps his way through bizarre, touching and humdrum encounters with the town's citizens. At skit's end, the postmaster is walking around with an inverted wastebasket covering his head. Poof! The postmaster disappears, but the basket is still there. This is typical of the evening's pseudoprofundities-here today, and a basket case tomorrow...
...again before they can be one of the people--fight with them and not for them. The vacationers register a few voters (sell a few gallons of healing oil and an insurance policy), antagonize a cracker grocery store owner or two (collegiate mischief), then take off for school and--poof--their work goes up in the smoke of myth and old habit...
...whatever length of time is necessary. I think we've got the strength to win contracts this time. If we don't, we'll try again. We're not giving up. You can issue protests just so long before your reason for existence goes poof...