Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final appalling scene is meant to strike a gong, but there is no resonance, no reverberation. The characters and their pain disappear from the mind with the turn of the last page...
...year, the currency is practically worthless, and many staples are almost unobtainable. Ugandans do not complain lest they receive a visit from Amin's public safety unit, a corps of goons in dark glasses who, as a Ugandan exile put it, "specialize in making people disappear-permanently." For those who disappear only temporarily, there is the prospect of torture: Kampala abounds with tales of prisoners who have been buried to their necks in cesspools, forced to beat comrades to death or compelled to engage in cannibalism. Shopkeepers accused of price-gouging face execution by firing squad...
Ghettoes will not disappear if he words is abolished. Not will minorities. If language is,in the end, a reflection of the society in which it is used--and all three of these writers agree at some point in their essays that such is the case--then no amount of manicuring on the level of words will rectify injustices in social reality...
...concerned, the tax haven can disappear tomorrow. The difficulty we have is getting the indigenous population to participate in the political and commercial thinking." As one British official put it, "The New Hebridean wants to be himself. He's had a look at the European way of life and in many cases has opted for his own. Being a New Hebridean on a coconut island, after all, can be a very satisfying full-time...
...said nuclear arms control could begin if the two countries were willing to give up nuclear weapons, "the chips of political sovereignty." But said, "It might take 25 years before this particular appetite or addiction to nuclear weapons would disappear...