Word: disappearers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...burying details that he scarcely knows whether he is alive himself. As the pressure of Russian attacks forces the German line closer and closer together and the regiments beat their aimless retreat across miles of snow-swept steppes into Stalingrad proper, Plievier introduces many miscellaneous characters who appear briefly, disappear are forgotten by the reader, and reappear again somewhere else...
...expected to present varying views of the cause of the present tendency toward breakdown in the family group. Some authorities say that this disintegration will continue to become more acute, and others believe that it is merely due to the temporarily unsettled conditions of the day and will disappear in time...
...third vacancy in the executive phalanx, the political touts figure that somebody is bound to die, retire, or otherwise disappear from among the remaining nine positions. They point knowingly to figures who accompany the President on vacation jaunts (such as Governor Wallgren of Washington, ousted in the recent election). They also point knowingly to figures who do not accompany the President anywhere (such as General Eisenhower). These people, the commentators reveal, are dark horses for the Cabinet, which means that somebody has to get out to make room for them...
More sophisticated Mexicans took the comet in stride. At Tacubaya Observatory, Astronomer Guillermo Haro patiently explained over & over that there was nothing to fear, that the comet would soon disappear. Some tradesmen saw a chance to make money. A haberdasher advertised: "Comet Sale-Everything Goes Fast!" Gloria Duval, chic hairdresser at the Hotel Reforma, introduced a Comet Hairdo, an upswept...
...whirled in a square dance downstairs. When the networks gave him time for a three-minute talk (which listeners expected to be his admission of defeat), Wallace cried: "The cup of iniquity of both the old parties will overflow and one or the other of the old parties will disappear." He exhorted his workers: "This crusade is going ahead with renewed vigor...