Word: vanishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cure an ivy-poisoned soldier, one-tenth of a cc. of the extract (diluted with one cc. of salt solution) is injected intramuscularly. Burning sensations vanish within two to 24 hours, all blistering within two to five days, and no hospitalization is needed. The average untreated case suffers from one to three weeks, often in a hospital. Sergeant Shapiro's extract cannot prevent ivy poisoning; it desensitizes skin only after an attack. Applied externally, it produces a fine case of poison ivy itself...
...reproduce themselves like living organisms. A virus "generation" probably lasts for only 20 to 30 minutes, so that an eon of virus evolution can occur within a few years on the human time scale. New and fiercer breeds of virus can thus develop from time to time, then vanish. Doctors believe that the virus which caused the worldwide influenza plague of 1918 is still with us, but the once deadly old stock is relatively decadent...
Gonorrhea. Some 80% acute (i.e., new) gonorrheal infections can be cleaned up by a single massive intravenous dose of sulfathiazole, reports the Military Surgeon. All the symptoms do not vanish at once, but no further treatment is needed, and the soldier-patient can return to duty the day after medication...
Other elements of the American business structure can be expected to awake to the danger before it disturbs their dreams of rosy profits in an expanding economy. First to be hit will be the advertising agencies; except for "Bostitch-staples-are-winning-the-war" ads, brand-name publicity will vanish for the duration. Retailers may feel a distinctly uncomfortable pinch as special discounts for pushing one particular brand are made useless by the disappearance of the conditions which gave rise to them. So far, these groups have not protested loudly. That, however, is not a guarantee of a continued silence...
...nature's strangest mysteries-why, all over the planet, hordes of such rodents pop up out of the earth from time to time. Small, silent, fleet, these musine masses scurry tirelessly among the grasses, destroying grain, trees, any other vegetation they can get their teeth into. Then they vanish from the desolated fields as if they had sunk back again into the earth, which remains sieved with their burrows. Fear of their visitations is age-old: Apollo protected the ancients against them. In North Brabant, Holland, St Gertrude is prayed to as a protectress against mice...