Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smooth functioning of democracy. Even if only one in 10 students sent their fee in happily, the council would still have about $13,000 to play with. If you're only catering to one-tenth of the campus, we think that's plenty. If you happen to disappear, it's only because the whole student body wants...
Eaton Professor of the Science of Government Samuel P. Huntington says that though the current mood in Haiti is Jubilant, "the moment of euphoria will disappear quickly...
...this week in an $8.5 million blaze of spectacular stagecraft. Based on Edna Ferber's novel about a floating theater on the Mississippi River, the show has always been too long and thematically sprawling. The most engaging characters, the light- skinned black Julie and her white husband Steve, virtually disappear before the intermission, while the coincidence-plagued second act rambles episodically from 1889 to 1927. Over the years, some critics have found the treatment of blacks patronizing and often racist. And in a dozen stage and film incarnations since its premiere, the show has been hacked, squeezed, revised, prettified...
...America for The Soccer War, a collection of daredevil reportage from the Third World. Imperium too is a bravura performance, a kind of New Journalism about the Old World. As a youth in Soviet-dominated Pinsk, Poland, which is now in Belarus, Kapuscinski saw friends and teachers disappear -- part of Stalin's mass deportation and resettlement program that aimed to replace diverse nationalities with homo sovietus. This misfortune, as a dour professor in Baku tells the author, threatens present-day peace and stability from the Caucasus to the Pacific. "Now," he says, "one cannot move anyone without also moving someone...
...been well-conceived and clearly articulated. While officially recognizing the current government, the State Department also maintains low-level contact with the Islamists. The goal of this "double diplomacy" is ultimately to bring both sides to the negotiating table, to convince each that the other will not simply disappear...