Word: vanishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never had it so good." said one side of the Democratic campaign coin of 1952. Said the other: "Don't let them take it away." As 1953 started, many prophets, even those uninfluenced by political slogans, thought that "it" was bound to vanish. The overshadowing factor in all the predictions was the Korean war. Would the new Administration make good its pledge to end it, or get an armistice? If so, what would be the effect of the reduced arms spending on business...
...embellish even the fluffiest souffle with her brandied prose: "It came perfumed of the hot sugared fruit and toned with the magic of some liqueur . . . The waiter's spoon dipped in. and the souffle responded with a rapturous, half-hushed sigh as it settled softly to melt and vanish in a moment like smoke or a dream...
...Council, the Cabinet or anywhere else. TIME does not dismiss as "trivial and inconsequential" the problem of defense and counterattack against Russia. But it does not hold that a group of scientists necessarily knows more about air defense than the military, nor does it believe that the U.S. will vanish from the face of the earth in two years unless it adopts Project Lincoln...
...farms are scattered, round the Aberdares and between the Aberdare range and Mount Kenya. When the Mau Mau gangs took to the thick, tangled forests and chilly upper misted slopes, they put the white farmers on a vast perimeter-and on the defensive. The Mau Mau gangs strike and vanish, and the white & black soldiers and police and farmers-on-commando go blundering after them. A commando leader said: "We were doing a little maneuver with some Lancashire Fusiliers. The Fusiliers passed us a tree trunk's breadth away. There were 20 of us, and they never...
...getaways were wonderful-Grandma just seemed to vanish like smoke. But last week, when she tried to heist a bank in suburban Arcadia, her luck failed...