Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Duarte is especially proud of his success in curbing the death squads. In the three months since inauguration day, there have been about 450 killings, down from 630 during the previous three months. According to Roman Catholic Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas, fewer people "disappear" while in the custody of police and army officers, and relatives are being permitted to visit prisoners with increasing frequency...
...tired," whines a member of the United States Twirling Association. "C'mon, we're supposed to be having fun," snaps her companion, a clone. In razor-crease jeans and stiletto heels they stamp into the ladies' room, flounce around the corner past the polished washbasins and disappear into the two long rows of toilet stalls. They are the kind of girls who obey their mothers' warnings never to sit on strange toilet seats. Attendants have to nip in after that type, making sure the next woman will have no unpleasant surprises. That is the sort...
...reasons for the vodka boycott are political as well as spiritual. Underground opposition leaders have accused the government of trying to demoralize the country by making liquor easily available. While the government would also like to see drunkenness disappear, it hardly wants to cut profits from the $4 billion state-owned vodka monopoly. Polish workers have only once complied with efforts to make them give up their drink: during the August 1980 protest that gave birth to Solidarity. Some Poles feel that the latest call to sobriety would be a fitting way to commemorate that occasion...
Such moral complexities do not disappear when Gordimer addresses, directly or by analogy, the problems of South Africa. At the Rendezvous of Victory shows the aftermath of a successful black revolution in an unnamed land. Broad social justice has unquestionably triumphed, but the blessings are bestowed unevenly. The new regime finds itself increasingly embarrassed by Sinclair ("General Giant") Zwedu, the military hero of the war for freedom. The blunt soldier does not mix easily in the brave new world of international alliances and monetary congresses. His former colleagues shunt Zwedu toward oblivion, using the lure of well-heeled debauchery...
...novelist can describe time's flow past a few more bends in the river, nothing more. And nothing less: seen well, the currents and eddies that quicken, disappear and roil to the surface again during two generations of an ordinary family's journey are astonishing and mysterious. Fat-legged baby becomes child, becomes maiden, becomes mother, becomes crone. Which is real? Blink twice; the young hell raiser reappears as the sour pensioner. Which is illusion, hot sexuality or bitter recollection...