Word: vanishingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like were writing for the newspapers and carrying on the Resistance. There was an intellectual and social defiance which the Nazis could never conquer, and it continued despite the imposition of censorship and curfew--even though if one missed the last metro, the veneer of normal life would vanish and one could be arrested at random on the street...
...night the Crimson (6-11) escaped from its self-imposed manacles of a listless offense and an immobile defense. With a display of force that had lurked just below the surface all year, the icemen made every one of the failures and disappointments that have spotted this unhappy season vanish into the misty Boston Garden...
...past is not always right, of course, nor the innovator always wrong. The desolate eternalist of Ecclesiastes ("There is no new thing under the sun") should be profoundly boring to anyone under 70. The problem is that values (these days, even elementary skills in how to raise children) vanish into the cracks between generations. Anthropologist Margaret Mead believed ten years ago that the West had entered an age so headlong in its rush toward the future that the old no longer had much of value to teach the young. Well, the future no longer seems quite so wildly original...
...before Galileo's question was answered. In a 1659 treatise, Systema Saturnium. Dutch Astronomer Christiaan Huygens correctly deduced the the ears of Saturn were a distinct ring, disconnected from the parent planet and slightly tilted as observed from the earth. From a terrestrial perspective the ears would periodically vanish because the angle of vision changed during Saturn's voyage around the sun. A superb telescope-maker, Huygens also discovered Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and calculated the time it took the ringed planet Huygens make a single journey around the sun (nearly 30 years). Wryly, Huygens speculated...
Fourteen black children die or vanish, and police are baffled says Teresa Brown, 9, "I get scared and cry." Teresa is not alone. The entire south side of Atlanta, where she lives, is a community gripped by fear. Over the past 15 months, 14 black youngsters, ranging in age from seven to 15, have disappeared. Ten have later been found murdered...