Word: disappear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crowning Edifice. Last week Libya's Premier Mustafa Ben Halim, visiting Tunis, signed an agreement with Bourguiba that looked to a day when their mutual borders would disappear. "An audacious step has been taken toward the building of a great, unified Maghreb," cried Bourguiba. "When Algeria has overcome her tribulations, the edifice will be crowned." He added a warning: "France is today faced with an alternative. On one hand, an endless war . . . on the other, the constitution of a North African community deeply unified and ready to cooperate...
...that "wavering" in Soviet power which he had always feared. When destalinization got out of hand, the long-disciplined Polish intellectuals broke loose. The unrest spread to the workers and peasants. All Stalin's successors could think of was to order Jakub Berman and other hated leaders to disappear. Party Secretary Bierut died fortuitously in Moscow, Deputy Premier Mine took ill. In July came the riots at Poznan. Someone in Moscow remembered Gomulka, the one man who, because of his war record, his persecution, but most of all his patriotism, could perhaps win public sympathy and stem the rising...
...Ladislao Vajda, a Hungarian director working in Spain, into a film as simple and sincere as a child's tear. The actors, especially Marcelino (Pablito Calvo) and Brother Cookie (Juan Calvo), play with an easy matter-of-factness that makes the transition from natural to supernatural almost disappear. The hard Spanish land and the bare Spanish sky clamp the mystical theme between them, as in a vise of physical reality. And the musical score has an earthy beat and heat that might almost warm the coldest doubter to that spiritual ignition point at which miracles come to pass...
...blow was especially bitter, for around the Seamasters they have built their hopes of adding a new dimension to long-range air warfare. The hope: the Seamaster could easily base in any hidden cove in the world, there be supplied by submarine, make its A-bomb runs and then disappear again to sea, where its chances of being spotted would be minimized. The advantages over land-and-carrier-based aircraft were so obvious that both the Air Force and the Army have been examining the Martin prototypes with interest...
...Administration disapproves of both clauses and practices, and has said so. It has also said that it will not extract compliance at the expense of breaking national fraternity affiliations. Its strategy has been to attempt persuasion and to hope that religious and racial barriers will gradually disappear. So far progress has been slow, but administrative spokesmen are not yet discouraged...