Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Water directed at the blaze from an extended aerial ladder seems to douse the fire. The flames disappear, and members of the rescue squad appear at the windows of adjacant suites and bed rooms...
...surface. Astronomers discounted some predictions that the comet will collide with the sun. But it could be broken up by the sun's radiation and gravitational field. If it survives its solar encounter, the comet discovered by a piano-key polisher and a guitar instructor will then disappear into the nether reaches of space-considerably beyond Pluto-and will not come hack into view for some 500 to 1,000 years...
Shevlin, a junior, is one of the legion of high school stars--he played for Wakefield High (Mass.) High--who disappear into the morass of college football and are never heard from again...
Eventually, Jacques learns that he can see through things as though they do not exist. He can make people disappear at will; he walks raptly through the daylit Paris streets and the roaring Metro without seeing a soul. Time loses its meaning; he comes home one evening to discover to his mild surprise that he has been away for three whole days...
...Viet Nam's will-o'-the-wisp war is mobility. As guerrillas, the Viet Cong have naturally used it to the best advantage so far, slipping stealthily through swamps and jungles to attack, then disappear. But thanks to the growing armada of troop-carrying transports and helicopters in Viet Nam, the U.S. has developed its own brand of mobility. Last week, despite shifting veils of monsoon rain and cloud, that mobility was being used to good effect. Siege & Spider Holes. First demonstration came in the battle for Route 19, an affair that at first glance seemed doomed...