Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most bizarre episodes in nu clear history was the 1968 disappear ance at sea of a shipment of 200 tons of uranium. The heist was not confirmed until 1977, when it was generally assumed that the Israelis had latched onto the ore, enough to make 30 bombs at their atomic reactor in the Negev. This insubstantial news snippet was seized upon by bestselling English Novelist Ken Follett (Eye of the Needle), who has processed it into one of the liveliest thrillers of the year...
...anti-Communist, Podhoretz supported the American intiative in foreign affairs. As a liberal, he was shocked by America's continued prosperity which many had expected to disappear after the war, and was forced grudgingly into the conclusion that "America works...
...know when somebody says something prophetic (thunder claps in the background) and you know when the witches are coming (bizarre piano medleys screech behind the gauze curtains). The best musicians, meanwhile--banjo and fiddle players Thornton Lewis and Matthew Brown--make one stage appearance and, sad to say, disappear...
Nixon understood immediately that if the Soviet Union succeeded in humiliating China, all prospects for world equilibrium would disappear. He decided-and I fully agreed-that if the Soviet Union threatened China we would not stand idly...
...more concretely in budgetary tables than anywhere else--made possible a $223,000 surplus in the Faculty budget. That money looks insignificant next to the gargantuan $50 million overall Faculty budget, and you shouldn't expect it to help moderate next year's tuition increase. The $223,000 will disappear into the Faculty's Fund for Instruction, a $4 million account which has absorbed past surpluses and from which the Faculty covers any deficit it runs...