Word: vanishingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the "binding force" that holds atomic nuclei together, but there is no complete theory to explain how they operate. Columbia's physicists hope that their new cyclotron, which generates plenty of mesons, may dig out many of their secrets. One possibility: that two colliding mesons may both vanish, suddenly, turning wholly into energy...
...affairs, discovers something worse-a pretty young schoolteacher who not only has her own whimsical version of the facts of life, but is seeking the facts of death from a ghost with whom she has romantic rendezvous. The inspector tries in vain to exorcise the ghost, who refuses to vanish until he notices the girl unconsciously responding to a flesh-&-blood suitor. Even then the girl all but dies of losing him; it requires a whole persuasive symphony of mundane attractions to woo her back to life...
...summer he would vanish to his farm in upstate New York to mend roofs, trudge through the mud and bargain at cattle auctions. In spring he played on a campus softball team known as Carman's Indians. He himself often wondered whether he was the type for "deaning." "Here," he once said of himself, "is a good dirt farmer gone wrong...