Word: vanishingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sample stunts: making a thimble vanish; matching cards picked by a spectator; "cutting" ropes and putting them together again. Dr. Kelley's prize patient is a salesman who developed a fear of talking to people, had to quit his job. After six weeks of training, Dr. Kelley got him to perform three tricks at a patients' party. A few weeks later he was completely cured...
...respected in the past still came the sincere warning: revise the setup from top to bottom now; bring in fresh management blood to replace the men who have failed to deliver what was needed of them; outline the controls so clearly that the red-tape bottlenecks will vanish; give one man the responsibility; it is later than you think...
...every period of sweeping change, life outruns its popular interpreters. Happenings come too fast; old familiar actors on the stage of history are whisked away and disappear; newcomers crowd in, get half through their opening lines and vanish with a dull thud and a gurgle...
...stocks began to vanish at a rate that would have cleaned out a four-month supply in a week, some, stores clamped down, limited purchases to three pairs per customer. Before the rationing, one store reported a single order for $75 worth of stockings...
...behind the plane's tail, the second man had jumped. Within ten seconds, the cabin was empty. The 'chutes drifted compactly together, behind the clump from the other plane, scudding swiftly downwind. The crews aboard the planes circling overhead saw the first jumpers hit ground, roll, vanish among their flattening parachutes. A flight sergeant yelled: "Hell, they're in the trees!" Some of the 'chutists had indeed gone into the trees; one landed in a creek. Damage: a couple of ripped 'chutes, no injuries...