Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...down a rain-slicked brick street. In Coamo, he told a questioner that if Puerto Rico becomes a state, "you will first be an American, and second you will be a Puerto Rican." Anti-statehooders seized on the statement as proof that the island's cultural identity would disappear, but Connally later recovered, sort of. "You'll hardly know you have it [statehood]," he told a cocktail gathering, "except for a few more benefits...
Although David A. Keene, George Bush's political director, admits that polls in New Hampshire include "eight to ten points of Iowa hype for our candidate that will disappear," he nevertheless believes there has been a significant shift in grass roots support from Ronald Reagan to Bush in the race for the Republican nomination...
...excitement or exchange. Many cannot quite conquer the sense of guilt about receiving a good grade for a course they learned two days before the final exam. A history professor once described to me his frustration about the "missing" students here, the ones who get gentlemen's Cs and disappear from official view. These are students who never go to their courses, who have never talked to a professor, who only draw official notice when they fail a general exam or leave. Too many students here lead this intellectual half-life--not least the ones who get good grades...
...gray doom that accompanies it. The streets ice over, the zippers go up and Tommy's does a booming business. Some people make lists (Monday: research for paper, reading for Soc Sci, reserve reading for Nat Sci; Tuesday: outline paper, more reading for Soc Sci, general panic). Some people disappear into the dead zones of Widener, wandering through the stacks in search of something more interesting that "Population Demography of Rural Pakistan" and staring out the windows to ponder the meaning of life...
Most people disappear into their rooms; they close the window and pray, pray that some knowledge will join the carbon dioxide floating around the room; pray that maybe, just maybe, there'll be another "act of God"--a Blizzard of '80 if you will--and Harvard will shut down. The snow refuses to fall. They emerge at meal times, lingering over the lime sherbet, going back for more Sauerbraten, saying "yes" to the pureed squash. Anything to postpone...