Word: disap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last February, have brought a semblance of order to an economy that had been distorted by subsidies, hoarding and black-market speculation. But the price hikes have helped to raise the cost of living 108% over the past year. All-night queues in front of butcher shops have largely disap peared, because many people cannot afford to buy meat at the new prices. Virtu ally all necessities are rationed: one bar of soap, a half-liter of vodka and 3 lbs. of sugar per person per month. This fall, pre schoolers will be allotted one pencil, one eraser...
...conception of politics; the problem disap...
Other men have been less fortunate. Overnight nine snowmobiles have disap eared. A strange coincidence? Verb guesses that some enterprising crook managed to get to the ice pack during the night with a boat large enough to carry them off. Clearly that ill wind from the south has blown somebody some good...
Those who look for a feminist parable to begin at this point will be disap pointed. It is true that Al∙Ith is superior to Ben Ata; love between them cannot be achieved until he climbs and she falls. Yet Lessing's narrative imbues this war between the sexes with an urgent purpose, nothing else than the regeneration of life...