Word: vanishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cloth. When the raiders have enough booty, they loose a few arrows and vanish into the jungle, followed by a fusillade of panicky gunfire from the victims...
...seeks for deliverance from himself and simultaneously a just regard for himself and his own perfection; and on the other, God who respects man's integrity while lifting him up into a new relation of love with Himself. With such a correction of both views the violent dissimilarities vanish...
Luckily, many stars are eclipsed by the moon. When this happens, the star does not vanish instantaneously. Instead, it makes the moon cast, for one-fiftieth of a second, a ribbed shadow of bright-and-dark "diffraction bands." By measuring these, the star's disc can be measured. But the bands are 30 feet apart, and they race past a telescope's lens at more than 1,000 miles per hour. No photographic plate or observer's eye is big enough or fast enough to catch them...
...whom are essaying the thankless task of stretching sixty-five dollars over thirty days. The type of consumer, in other words, who is particularly hard hit by rising prices. In the case of the student-veterans, most of their savings are represented by war bonds, whose real value would vanish in any long term inflation. A successfully conducted buyers' strike in Harvard Square would give heart to the millions of other consumers of the country who stand helplessly by while the manufacturers contemplate what the traffic will bear. By limiting purchases to the necessities of life, by refusing...
Joseph Rogon, 61, was different from the fuddled old drifters who vanish nightly into the cold stone wildernesses of Chicago. He paid his rent, had a wife, three sons, and a button for 35 years' faithful service to the International Harvester Co. A Polish immigrant, he spoke little English. But he had never gotten lost before...