Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...becoming a more experienced man. No longer will he be so concerned for his safety. He will have more time for introspection. He will observe with more acuity, more conscious of the degree and meaning of his perceptions. The tremor of his voice and its high-pitched quality will disappear. Uncertainties will remain, but he will be able to view them with almost complete objectivity...
Railway porters, French whores, ferocious Irish colonels, obsessed priests, poets, lovely girls and frustrated concert violinists loom up in the story and disappear. Each page of the book has its verbal delights, but it is doubtful if Cusack has made a true mosaic of his brilliant bits of colored stone...
...that some say was the Garden of Eden is a place of terror, plot and counterplot. Its prisons are jammed with an estimated 5,000 political prisoners and ex-officials, and its lampposts are periodically festooned with bodies. Kassem's Iraq is a place where once-eminent citizens disappear without a trace, a land where fortnight ago the dock workers of Basra, outraged by a friendly reference to Egypt's President Nasser, killed and mutilated a customs clerk and-the modern-day hallmark of Iraqi politics-dragged his body through the streets...
During periods when the leukemia is controlled by drugs, the diseased cells disappear from the bone marrow, and the marrow takes on a normal appearance. The researchers proposed to remove and freeze a part of the normal appearing marrow, storing it until leukemia cells again appeared and could not be controlled by drugs...
...expects the big car to disappear, but its market, too, may shrink. While working on their compact car, the Big Three are gambling on continued demand for bigger, flashier cars by planning 1960 models that are longer, lower and wider-with new fin treatments. G.M.'s cars will be completely done over; the Ford, Edsel and Mercury will also be completely redesigned; while Chrysler is planning changes, its main emphasis will be on new interiors...