Word: disappear
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After talking a while, fiddling with his radio, and wasting enough time to let any half-wise robber disappear, the first policeman told his partner and the student to get in the car, and they moved out. The cruiser raced back to catch the criminal with its high beams on and blue lights flashing. Even a sleeping wino would have fled the area. The cruiser drove right onto the Common as if it expected to find someone waiting there, but the Common, of course, was empty...
Thus, the Palestinian issue remains alive and important. There are Palestinians all over the world with large communities in several Arab countries, Israeli-occupied territories, and in Israel proper behind the so-called green line. They are not about to disappear and abandon their sense of national identity and their longing for a homeland. They will continue to struggle in order to win the right to self-determination. The main spokesman for this nationalist drive is the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), recognized by nearly every nation in the world as the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people...
...students a more challenging group than elsewhere. "Everyone that has taught in the program has been surprised at the high quality of the students," says Goethals. There is a small element of significantly slower students that he doesn't find in the college, says Moore. But many of these disappear, along with those who give up when winter weather rolls around or decide the traveling is too much. There is a 20 per cent attrition rate over the course of a semester...
...arrived; the music starts up and, from around the corner, the cheering begins. Is this the return of some long lost queen? But isn't there something too familiar in all those flash bulbs popping? As hundreds of hands push paper and pen toward her our doubts disappear. It is another opening night in Hollywood...
...fans are fed up with paying first-class prices for secondrate action and minor league treatment while their favorite stars disappear. This trend is surfacing in other sports, and often the players are partly to blame. With reserve clauses falling everywhere and players selling their services to the highest bidders, they may be treading on their own long-range interests. Professional sports are not the escape from reality...