Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many people watching Pete Varney disappear under swarms of Northeastern tacklers during the first few plays of the season thought that Harvard would go into the Yale game with a 6-2 record...
...leaving assorted instruments in their patients. Not John Everard, 33, a worker in an airplane factory in Glendale, Calif. Shortly after Everard had undergone a gallbladder operation, he began to feel pains in his lower right abdomen. His physician assured him that his discomfort was normal and would soon disappear. It persisted; more than two years later, an X ray revealed why: Everard's surgeon had failed to remove a hemostat, or surgical clamp, which had lodged in his patient's abdominal cavity. The facts speak for themselves, argued Everard's attorney. They did indeed. Holding that...
...suspense is heightened through film sequences, sparingly used in the first act. When the players disappear behind the plain wood house-front which constitutes the set, the cameras switch on and show their pursuit continued over rocks and in wooded areas, all this in frenetic, black-and-white photography which evokes the 1920's. To suggest a chase within the house, the director achieves an even more perfect fusion of film and stage action. As the real Soldier and Gloria gape from one open window, the other window shutter springs open, on film, and we see the ominous Mrs. Schmidt...
...Secretary-General U Thant's own assessment is that "the U.N. has done well, but it has not done well enough." Certainly it is no longer a defense of the U.N.'s record merely to recall Adlai Stevenson's remark that if the U.N. were to disappear, something very much like it would have to be created. One of its most useful functions remains as a place for hostile big powers to meet and, if they so desire, to use U.N. machinery to carry out the results of their compromises or deals. The U.N. can no doubt...
...carriers are careful not to call their plans a merger. If Austrian Airlines were to disappear entirely, its successor might lose some reciprocal landing rights that Austrian acquired-but never used-when it granted Australia...