Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jewish friend's Odessa apartment one night and interrogated for 26 hours by secret police agents, apparently convinced that the Youth Festival outbursts could not have been spontaneous and must have been organized with embassy help. He was told that if he did not cooperate, "You will simply disappear and your clothes will be found upon the beach...
...released a statement that all Ireland interpreted as a treaty of peace. As a reporter for the Irish Times put it: "There was no rejoicing in Fethard-on-the-Sea yesterday, but there was a new air of hope in the village. Obviously, however, [the boycott] will not disappear as though by the wave of a magic wand...
...personal secretariat controlled by a "special sector" whose head was Malenkov. The famous names that ranked beside Stalin's in the Politburo and in the government ministries were those of privileged shop-window dummies and personal toadies whom Stalin switched around at will, and sometimes caused to disappear...
Brave & Tragic. The nation soon grew accustomed to having its sons disappear into the woods for mysterious campfire powwows, struggle with all sorts of exotic knots, make fire without matches, proclaim that they were trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. An occasional adult scoutmaster complained. "The man in charge of a group of boy hikers," wrote one, "has somewhat the same problems that faced Moses in managing the Exodus. There is a similar effort involved in keeping up morale and discipline. There is the same need to dispel almost universal fear of death...
Fire Down Below (Warwick; Columbia) rises high and could have soared higher but for a curious fact: its proper beginning seems uncomfortably wedged in its middle. Two of the three principals disappear in the midst of the story for half an hour of screen time. The curious result is a fast-paced adventure yarn laced around a taut interlude of high drama...