Word: vanishingly
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...little bit of greenery will soon vanish from Harvard Square...
...wild turkeys. The hammock harbors this life because the river bed is periodically exposed to air, thus providing alternating wet and dry seasons that are essential to the survival of the wild, beautiful river-swamp system. With permanent flooding, ecologists warn, the system's rare creatures will soon vanish...
...participated in the strike, also finds a form of "up" as a result of his experience. In an essay about midway through the book, he pictures a structureless university-a school where all the tradition-honored rigamarole that someone decided was "education" a thousand years ago or so would vanish. This, too, is a kind of "up"-although if we were to really get up there, school itself would become a meaningless item-and Gagarin's explanation of educational ecstasy is as good as any I've seen. If you can't yet figure out what that's about...
...scientists have come to see, superstitious Indian villagers have been busily offering prayers, lighting candles and staging other rituals. Their supplications are designed to keep the demon at a distance. But they are not likely to succeed. On the morning of Saturday, March 7, the sun will temporarily vanish from the skies of Oaxaca, blotted out by a total solar eclipse...
...uplifting is only temporary, he writes in Scientific American. Only tens of thousands of years ago, a fleeting moment by geological standards, the Afar triangle was partially covered with seawater. As the Red Sea continues to widen and the subsurface rumbling goes on, he says, Afar will again vanish from sight beneath the waves...