Word: vanishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ruins beginning in the 3rd century B.C. Philae is already flooded five months of the year by the existing dam at Aswan, and when the first stage of the new High Dam is completed upstream by Soviet engineers and Egyptian workmen in 1965, the island and its temple may vanish beneath a second lake created between the two dams...
...Prime Minister Robert Menzies and to conventions of Commonwealth motorists, and fruit growers. A parliamentary delegation from Ghana was conferring in Whitehall. Said an Indian diplomat: "If almost any other member dropped out of the Commonwealth, it might well survive. But if Britain dropped out, it would vanish...
...year. There is economic pressure, however, to eat at Dudley (where it is possible to feed oneself far more cheaply) or in the Square (where the food is usually better). But if commuting students were required to buy a year lunch ticket for the Union, this economic incentive would vanish, and they could eat with their classmates without penalizing themselves...
Such moments can be glorious, and Bonnard's art was to seize and fix them for all time. His Piazza del Popolo has the quality of a good dream about to vanish. The Terrace shimmers, billowing like a veil before the onrush of huge forces. And finally Early Spring, which seems so gentle at first, is heaving, budding, bursting, beckoning, filled with wet splendors and bright pangs of delight...
...beauty contest; the only distinction is that winners whose parents are married get a bonus. Harking back to African tradition, many women in Jamaica cheerfully prove themselves by producing a healthy child before expecting island males to consider them seriously as wives. Yet even then, Jamaican men tend to vanish magically when marriage is mentioned...