Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Later, in the weeks and months that followed, the rape did not disappear. Its memory remained in the endless Undergraduate Council debates about how to improve security. It lived on in the faces of the uniformed security guards who arrived at the Science Center. And in the 2 a.m. phone calls to the escort service, made by women who would no longer walk alone...
...city in the West Bank. After two years of revolt, the ancient and impoverished community has won distinction as the most dangerous turf in the occupied territories. The dense, mazelike architecture gives the Palestinians a home- court advantage, enabling the young shabab (activists) to vanish down secret passageways or disappear over rooftops. Nervous soldiers respond with trigger-happy brutality. The consequences: at least 23 residents have been killed by Israeli troops, and more than 1,000 wounded. Internecine bloodshed has claimed an additional 18 Arabs accused of collaborating with the Israelis. Israelis feel no safer. One soldier died when...
Like an unpleasant alarm, the banging eventually wakes me up. Unlike an unpleasant alarm, the banging doesn't disappear with the flip of a switch. It keeps going...
Germany's culturally ingrained attitudes and modes of thought didn't just disappear as Allied troops rolled through the Rhineland; they have been gradually submerged as new generations and ways of thought replaced...
...rebels also embarrassed the army with their ability to disappear, then re-emerge at will, often using sewer pipes to leave areas or exchanging battle fatigues for civilian clothes and merging into the population. Equally unsettling to the Cristiani government, as well as to Washington, is that thousands of Salvadoran residents have collaborated with the rebels. A U.S. Administration official admitted last week that "there was a torrent of arms and ammunition" into San Salvador. Said he: "That couldn't have taken place had not a lot of people helped, or at the minimum, kept quiet...