Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there was a debate in the army over whether to respond to the Syrian invasion of Jordan. I was part of a minority who said that for the first time, there was an opportunity to start solving the Palestinian problem. The solution was to let the Hashemite Kingdom disappear...
...lean looks, the result of a life in prison that consumed nearly 25 of his 37 years, enabled Jack Henry Abbott to mix in easily with the transient roustabouts who work the Louisiana oilfields. It was the sort of life where a man could, if he wanted to, virtually disappear. Earlier this year, Norman Mailer had led a campaign to secure parole for Abbott, largely on the basis of his writing talent. His letters from prison, collected under the title In the Belly of the Beast, were released to fair critical acclaim. But the ex-convict seemed unable to handle...
...pair of crafty old hierarchs, Cyril Cusack and Burgess Meredith seem to be having some informed fun, but most of the characters disappear from memory as soon as they leave the screen. It's a shame...
...have been worthwhile; she was an interesting character. Her daughter is not. But since Christina wrote the book, she's what we get. The other Crawford child, Christopher, is something of a non-character in Mommie Dearest. He appears briefly in the beginning as a little kid, only to disappear until his mother's funeral...
...year and rising. Government borrowing weighs heavily on credit markets already strained by brisk demand for business loans, including the huge sums to finance megabuck corporate mergers like that between Du Pont and Conoco. The Administration has predicted that the deficit will shrink to $42.5 billion in 1982, and disappear altogether by 1984. But those targets are fast slipping away. The Congressional Budget Office forecast last week that the deficit would be $65 billion in 1982 and would total an extra $50 billion in 1984. As the Federal Reserve continues to restrict the growth of the money supply...