Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hybrid: part book, part toy. In The Dwindling Party (Random House; $8.95), Edward Gorey's gothic farce matches the designs of his kidnaping bats and boat-swallowing moats. The very young may not get some of the puns at Hickyacket Hall, but the MacFizzet family, who disappear when the readers pull various tabs, provide hours of amusement even for children who have not yet worked their...
Once a year, figure skaters in the Harvard community get a chance to perform some of their most intricate stunts in the Eliot House-sponsored "Evening of Champions," and then they seem to just disappear. But Elise Davison, a freshman who made her Jimmy Fund show debut this year, is still...
More ominous, new forms of automation Like computerized robots are eliminating blue-collar jobs at a swift pace. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that by the end of the decade, advances in microelectronic technology could cause 3 million jobs to disappear, a total that represents 15% of the manufacturing work force. At the same tune, of course, millions of new positions will be created for those who can work with the electronic gadgetry. The problem is that most assembly-line workers, particularly the older and less educated ones, will find it tough to learn sophisticated skills Like computer programming...
...left with half a bag of flour of a barely used bottle of corn syrup. Some ingredients can even be picked up in the dining hall. It doesn't really matter if you don't finish all the ingredients anyway, since leftovers such as chocolate chips are guaranteed to disappear in any room...
...wife Emmanuel, seated behind the wheel of their Autobianchi. The couple heads back to home at Villa Paino: several vehicles (police don't know how many) follow close on. At the appointed intersection, automatic weapons spray 40 rounds of ammunition at the car from point blank range. The murderers disappear into the night, leaving behind a smoking wreck of shattered glass, blood and the dead bodies of Dulla Chiesa and his wife. She is hit despite the General's pathetic efforts to shield her from the path of the on coming bullets. The ferocity of the attack surprises even...