Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ROTC provides full tuition for most students who enroll, and a source of financial aid would disappear...
...second come-on might be called "Kids Disappear!" At Waterville, Vermont's Bolton Valley, Boyne Mountain and Boyne Highlands in Michigan, and Colorado's Beaver Creek and Copper Mountain, the staff will take youngsters off their parents' hands early in the morning, and some of the resorts will keep them until after the adults have enjoyed a leisurely drinks-and-dinner. Nurseries are nothing new, but they are now much more elaborate. At Copper Mountain, infants from two months to two years are cared for by a pediatric nurse. Older chil dren then move...
...that they really disappeared. Even the powerful Argentine generals, with so many instruments of annihilation at their fingertips, could not actually make people disappear. They did what they could: abduct, torture, shoot, behead and bury their enemies in mass and secret graves. What they hoped most recently, since ending their "dirty war" of antiterrorism. was that the issue of the desaparecidos would itself disappear. If the newly elected President of Argentina, Raul Alfonsin, had any sense of custom or propriety, that is precisely what would have happened. But Alfonsin seemed unaware that one does not put the military on trial...
...trouble is that people simply will not disappear. There is too much stubbornness in them, too great a propensity for self-assertion. Langston Hughes' comic character, Jesse B. Semple (known as Simple in Hughes' newspaper column), once boasted that he had been "cut, stabbed, run over, hit by a car, tromped by a horse, robbed, fooled, deceived, doublecrossed, dealt seconds . . . but I am still here." Not even death weakens such a stand. The power of ghosts is that they manage to retain their place in the world in spite of the final obstruction; they insist on their presence...
...truly intent on making others disappear, he is far more likely to succeed by killing his enemies outright and announcing the deed publicly. Then at least one deals out certainty, which will probably be followed by despair. By creating "disappearances" in Argentina, the military leaders not only engendered a feeling of national absence and brooding but raised a question of logic. Gone? How can anyone be gone nowadays in our small, interconnected, excessively communicative modern world? Instead of a nation of mourners, the generals created a nation of snoopers, all pawing at the ground for bones...