Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Touches of the old defensiveness remain: Brown students do not like being reminded that Providence looks like an old boot; they do not like being reminded that the grading system there--failed courses magically disappear from transcripts--bears more resemblance to most kindergartens than to serious universities; and if they major in "organizational behavior," they definitely don't want to talk about...
...market, or, if that is impossible, no industry will emerge. Either way, we will be safer than we are today." Either that, or an unsafe industry will emerge in a free market, everyone will make buckets of money for a few years, and then a few midwestern cities will disappear in puffs of radioactive fog. Courts...
...Carter lead among women apparently has been shrinking, and some Reagan aides predict that it will virtually disappear by Election Day. Nationwide it was as high as 10% in August, according to a Yankelovich, Skelly and White survey for TIME. More recently, both Gallup and Harris polls showed Carter only 2% ahead among women. The percentage of women who say they are undecided has also been dropping, to only 5% this month, but it is still slightly higher than the percentage of undecided among...
...Royals returned to Kansas City like long-suffering exiles. They had clinched the American League pennant in the enemy's ballpark and watched leads disappear in the first two World Series games before deafeningly partisan Philadelphia fans. Largely a home-grown lot nurtured in the Royals' farm system, they were glad to be back among friends. Said Catcher Darrell Porter: "We haven't heard a single cheer for anything we've done for a week. It will be good to get back to our park and our fans...
Finally he is done. Concentration had congealed his face into a map of worry lines and wrinkles proclaiming his 69 years, but now as he looks up and displays that broad, lopsided, life-is-wonderful smile, ten years disappear as if by magic. Soon he will be on the ground disseminating the message, and he knows he does it well. For more than half a century, since his first try at high school theater, he has been delivering lines onstage, over radio, in movies, on television, through newspaper columns, in speeches at formal banquets and chats in factory lunchrooms...