Word: vanishingly
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...embellish even the fluffiest souffle with her brandied prose: "It came perfumed of the hot sugared fruit and toned with the magic of some liqueur . . . The waiter's spoon dipped in. and the souffle responded with a rapturous, half-hushed sigh as it settled softly to melt and vanish in a moment like smoke or a dream...
...Council, the Cabinet or anywhere else. TIME does not dismiss as "trivial and inconsequential" the problem of defense and counterattack against Russia. But it does not hold that a group of scientists necessarily knows more about air defense than the military, nor does it believe that the U.S. will vanish from the face of the earth in two years unless it adopts Project Lincoln...
...farms are scattered, round the Aberdares and between the Aberdare range and Mount Kenya. When the Mau Mau gangs took to the thick, tangled forests and chilly upper misted slopes, they put the white farmers on a vast perimeter-and on the defensive. The Mau Mau gangs strike and vanish, and the white & black soldiers and police and farmers-on-commando go blundering after them. A commando leader said: "We were doing a little maneuver with some Lancashire Fusiliers. The Fusiliers passed us a tree trunk's breadth away. There were 20 of us, and they never...
...getaways were wonderful-Grandma just seemed to vanish like smoke. But last week, when she tried to heist a bank in suburban Arcadia, her luck failed...
...York handled 22% of all the tonnage shipped to & from the U.S. Today tonnage has slumped to 15%. Principal reason: the New York waterfront is the realm of hoods and racketeers, where a payoff is as casual as a Christmas card, where whole truckloads of merchandise can vanish, where watchmen never make an arrest, and where mobsters recruit musclemen who are still serving time in Sing Sing...