Word: disappear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...place. Not so fast, says one of the world's top authorities on infectious diseases and a pioneer of the antibiotic age; disease is an aspect of man's adaptation to his environment, and as his environment changes, so do his diseases-but they do not disappear. In Mirage of Health, published this week (Harper; $4), famed Microbiologist René Jules Dubos of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (though no physician) applies laboratory logic to visions of a medical utopia...
...expects that the market for small foreign cars will disappear, but most automakers estimate that it will grow no bigger. In fact, it may shrink. One indication is that foreign cars are no longer as hard to get as they once were, and order backlogs have dwindled. The Big Three's compact cars will also be competing against their own imports...
...Actually, the Western peoples seem to have two dominant attitudes. First of all, they wish the Communists would roll up and disappear. Then they hope their allies would also roll up and disappear." Western people regard their relationships with other peoples as a "dismal duty," not a "startling opportunity." This negative attitude is "the projection on a national scale of what we think for ourselves," a desire to be left alone, a belief we can do best by ourselves. "It dates from the nursery. But it doesn't work on the human level, and it won't work...
While several Masters have suggested that valuable initiative inspired by separate menus would disappear under the proposed system, Tucker maintained that "the managers of the separate kitchens would have the same standards of initiative" with uniform menus "since they will still have to produce good quality food...
European missile bases, "subject to attack by large numbers of accurate Russian IRBM's," Ellsberg said, would disappear in the unexpected aggression...