Word: disappear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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College prestige is affected by the outcome of these tournaments. If the Council could obtain enough money to send consistently excellent teams to the major tourneys, it would add considerably to the University's good name. Other difficulties would also disappear given a steady income. The Council would no longer be forced to return the hotel-room hospitality of our opponents with an extra couch in a dormitory room; nor would teams travelling to other Ivy colleges be forced to pay for their own meals and part of their tickets...
...captain watched morosely. "When they hear we are coming in force," he said, "they disappear into the swamps. So we must fight them another way. The native shacks burning out there contained Viet Minh literature, or guns, or large stocks of rice." The captain swatted at buzzing insects with an old French newspaper. "They never fight us unless they outnumber us," he went on. "We can never win this fight militarily. It's just like trying to kill mosquitoes with a sledge hammer...
Hardly less striking than the short-term benefits of ACTH are its side effects. Many patients develop a severe acne, mental symptoms, a moon-shaped, swollen face, "buffalo hump," diabetes or hirsutism, i.e., a woman may grow a mustache and beard, but, along with other ill effects, they usually disappear after treatment is stopped...
...Parker accuses Matt of responsibility for this accident, warning that Troxell's ghost would come between them if they contemplated a life together. The nest day, Matt lands safely in the "pod" as his flaming plane crashes. Miss Parker rushes to him, and damn if that ghost doesn't disappear...
...listed on the black side of the backstage blackboard at the Bolshoi. "When one is in the red, that makes for prestige and profits," he says. "But when one is in the black that means financial as well as police troubles. Those who stay too long in the black disappear." In 1941, Jadan disappeared-but he went west instead of east to Siberia. The Nazis captured the village where Jadan had a summer home; the Jadans and the entire population of the village were shipped to Germany for slave labor...