Word: vanishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World War III will have no privacy. Airborne television tubes will watch cities dissolve, flashing the action on generals' screens in deeply buried dugouts. Even bombs and rockets as they fall will watch and report their dive to the target with unblinking electronic eyes, until they and it vanish simultaneously...
...world learned to look to Latin American cities for some manufactured exports. On ancient, hand-me-down Manchester equipment, Brazil's textile mills make some $60,000,000 worth of textiles annually for South Africa, Ireland, Sweden, the Belgian Congo, Australia. Even though war-made markets may vanish, the fact is that today Brazil's manufactures are gaining on her agricultural products in export value. Brazil is one of the world's largest exporting nations...
Dead-Man Formation. How could five planes vanish without one of them getting off an intelligible radio signal? Had one driven the rest of a wing-to-wing, "deadman formation" into a mass collision...
...pole of western civilized thought and conduct - indeed, "together these principles reflect the polarity of life itself, of all phenome nal existence. Force and inertia, action and reaction, change and stability, the dynamic and the static - without this universal dualism, meaning and reality, on the human plane at least, vanish into nothingness." Author Orton finds confirmation of the deep "political instinct of the English that out of the struggles of Whig and Tory two strong parties finally emerged frankly calling themselves Liberal and Conservative. Each has developed in mod ern times its central core of philosophy going well beyond matters...
...opposition New York Post did some quick checking of its own, reported on Page One: " 'Pearl Harbor Witness' DIDN'T Vanish, Mr. Hearst. A Navy officer's 'mysterious disappearance' from Bethesda [Md.] Naval Hospital . . . just isn't so. ... By the simple expedient of telephoning the hospital from New York, [the Post] established that the officer . . . happened to be out for a few hours yesterday, visiting his wife, on leave granted by the hospital [and is back now]. He didn't vanish, but the scare headlines will...