Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...repatriated officer said that the 50 executed men were among 76 who escaped from Stalag Luft III, a huge camp about 100 miles from Berlin. The recaptured airmen were manacled, taken to a jail at Gorlitz. Gestapo agents told them: "Nobody knows you are here. You can disappear." All were killed...
They did not disappear because of lack of oxygen in the water, weather (the smelts died in both warm and cold water) or air men's practice bombings in the Great Lakes (bombed fish have pulverized livers, of which there was no sign in the dead smelts). Dr. Van Oosten thinks that most likely the fish were killed by bacteria or viruses, but probably no one will ever know...
...will be made if America fails to recognize the vital moment. Such coordinated help as may be regarded proper by our leaders should be synchronized with the British effort so that the English-speaking peoples of the world will not be broken in detail. The vulnerability of singleness will disappear before unity of effort...
...Missing Girls" exposes the bitter truth about the secret evil that warps clean young souls, ruins strong bodies, and shatters brilliant minds. Did you know that 50,000 young girls disappear every year? Where do they go? What do they do? The answer to these perplexing questions originally ran to ten full reels, but the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has done us the favor of deleting the more boring passages and the version at the Gayety has been reduced...
...Disappointment Clubs are also fictitious. Their "members" are supposed to answer advertisements for servants, agree to take a job, then fail to appear, call up and say they will be there the following day. When they finally show up, they work for two days and then disappear...