Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...break away from my baffled friends, sprint madly up Mass. Ave. with a distracted look in my eyes, and disappear into the mist. It's not clear whether or not I graduate or whether I am disowned...
...Sheryl from presumed imprisonment by the men in the neighborhood, including the narrator's father. None of the combatants realized that they fought over deserted ground. Sheryl, discovering she was pregnant, had been whisked away: "For in these matters, it was well accepted at the time, the girl must disappear and the hoodlum boy never know." That Night, Author Alice McDermott's second novel, deftly balances the ravenous powers of young love against the shelters of community, security, the orderly progress of generations. In the aftermath of the episode that night, the parents in the neighborhood "had only begun...
...internal freedom, the pressure for foreign expansion could diminish. Though doubtful that this is in the works, Pipes concedes, "In the long run, changes domestically could lead to a change in foreign policy. The need for the party to justify itself by alleging a threat from abroad could disappear...
Buckner always reminded me and my brother of the cartoon character Asterix, with his bushy mustache, but then again Jerry Remy did too. Is it better to be fired outright than to disappear mysteriously like Remy did? Remy was in new Britain last summer, a hitting instructor for the Double-A Britsox. Not even Pawtucket...
...could accurately be said that half of all unions end in divorce. Harris' survey, which indicated considerable contentment among family members, convinces him that this will not happen. Now if only someone, married, divorced or single, could find a way to make one out of every two statistics disappear...