Word: disappeared
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...Crimson (8-2, 3-0 Ivy) started off strong, seemed to disappear in the second half, then finally returned to form near game’s end and held...
...them until we can figure things out ... We're playing protective defense. We can't let it happen again." Attorney General Robert Kennedy used the "spitting on the sidewalk" strategy - prosecuting small-time offenses to bag big-time suspects - against the Mob. But the strategy began to disappear in the 1970s, when criminal-justice priorities shifted to protecting citizens' rights. Ashcroft has brought it back; as of Friday, some 700 people had been locked up as result of the Sept. 11 investigation - and "a couple hundred" more had been arrested overseas with FBI help. One of them, Algerian pilot Lotfi...
...kids. The FCC told TV stations they didn't need to test their emergency broadcast systems for a while, for fear of spooking people. Candlelight vigils brought people out of their homes to the town square, then a plane rumbled overhead. Inhale, look up, follow the lights till they disappear, exhale and return to the prayers. It's hard to have the perfect autumn wedding when all the out-of-town guests call to cancel. Life insurance policies were selling fast...
...thinking is that we have then simply elected ourselves a dictator. Already, there are plenty of restraints on the president so he cannot merely act and then claim that it was in the nation’s best interest. Unfortunately, many of those restraints seem to all but disappear during war. No wonder Bush was so quick to declare the bombings “Acts of War.” Admittedly, a president should have more leeway for action during a crisis—the ability to call up troops, for instance, and to engage in high-level diplomatic talks...
...Phelps has no kind words for groups like Exodus, whom he calls “money-grubbing fags.” According to Phelps, “They know if they preached the truth, their revenue would disappear like the morning dew.” And the fact that they publicly admit to former homosexuality is a sign they are bound for hell, according to Phelps, who received 15,000 votes for the Democratic nomination for the governor of Kansas. “I don’t think one of the Elect would brag about being...