Word: disappeared
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What was particularly strange about the visitor was what Yalouris remembers as his ability to inexplicably "appear and disappear." Yalouris says, "He was an obviously eccentric old gent, and his visits were characterized by a completely unannounced sort of entry into the suite and an equally strange disappearance. One time he disappeared between the fourth and the first floor of the dorm. It was quite mysterious. "Eventually, however, Yalouris' ever-watchful adviser became concerned," Burris became quite vigilant and after about a week the man was never seen or heard again...
...surface only fleetingly, and then restricted almost entirely to the violence of suggestion and language rather than action. Softley's contemporized approach works because of the genuine erotic chemistry between Bonham-Carter and Roache, which reaches its peak at the Venice Carnival (a script addition), only to disappear completely in the one explicit sex scene (definitely a script addition), which Softley deliberately deeroticizes to show the gulf that opens between Kate and Merton. Both the sexualized metaphor of the masked carnival and the loveless sex may strike one as a bit heavy-handed, but both sequences are effective thanks...
...television monitor that had so famously failed weeks before. He worked the cables with the skill of a snake charmer, hooking them up to the TV with an authoritative snap. "You're not going to have a problem this time," he reassured Tsibliyev. "The picture is not going to disappear...
...Denying MFN would hurt the United States--our jobs, exports, and investments in China...and [with certain retaliation], many of the approximately 175,000 high-paying export jobs related to US trade would disappear," Bereuter said in a speech a few days after the extension of MFN to China this year...
...walls was actually a black curtain," Tripoli said. "They could disappear in and out of the curtain and reappear in front of the people again...