Word: vanishingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saturday and Sunday, it was the home team that overtook Harvard in the second day of events to win the event. Terry Neff, who was the low-point skipper in A Division, and Chris Middendorf, collected an eight-point lead after Saturday's six races, only to see it vanish in light airs on Sunday. Coast Guard won by the same margin...
...that Willa could go for days without hearing English spoken outside her house. She was wildly excited. To her, the prairie grass looked as if it were running; it seemed possible to hear the corn growing in the summer night. In the next eleven years, the frontier was to vanish. "The great-hearted adventurers" who opened the West were replaced by men "trained in petty economies." When Cather began to write, it was already with powerful nostalgia...
...then another and another, until the colonel had been rearmed no less than a dozen times. Finally, in the '40s, the city switched to a wooden replica-in acknowledgment of the accelerating costs of labor, if not the rates of degeneracy. Of course, the wooden swords began to vanish-5, 10, 15, 20, 25. In desperation the city switched to molded fiber-glass swords. Now those too are disappearing. But the city remains determined not to leave Shaw emptyhanded. "To give up," explains George Boutilier, superintendent for maintenance for Boston's parks, "would be saying go ahead...
...excellent selection from our book The Energy Crisis as a prelude to your article [May 7]. We must regretfully conclude that the nation is headed for an energy-caused convulsion of our physical life-support system. Once this happens, the institutions that guarantee economic and social freedom will surely vanish in the turmoil...
...federal court that is overseeing the Penn Central's operations in bankruptcy. Federal Judge John Fullam has given the railroad's trustees an ultimatum: devise a viable, Government-approved plan of reorganization by July 2 or start liquidating the line. Even if the Penn Central were to vanish as a corporation, the Government cannot let all its trains stop running. That, says Senator Hartke, "would be a calamity of the highest order. People would be out of work, and there would be shortages of energy, food and manufactured supplies." Thus July 2 is looming as a deadline...