Word: disappearers
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...nightmare. Yes, Das Dores took the same medication that made headlines 33 years ago when it produced 12,000 severely deformed children around the world. But while the word thalidomide became synonymous with tragedy and its use as a sleeping pill was banned, the drug did not disappear. In fact, it has made a quiet comeback. For all its dangers, thalidomide has benefits that have made it an increasingly valuable medicine when used carefully. Misuse, however, has caused a grim side effect: the reappearance of "thalidomide babies...
...kept a seemly silence. And for all the fragility she may have suggested in the big, round sunglasses and the head scarf, she wore some inner armoring; she possessed an eerie talent (a strategy of self-protection well known to those who handle dangerous animals) to make herself disappear, to dematerialize. If you saw her on the street, she would seem to abstract herself out of public attention, a kind of elegant vanishing. She would be, as she finally is now . . . elsewhere...
...Klerk had the courage to come out openly and say, "Apartheid has failed. The best way is negotiations." We must compliment him for that. But in spite of the fact that he made this commendable contribution, it was a foregone conclusion that his party was going to disappear. After the next five years, I don't think anybody will ever hear of the National Party. He applied dirty-trick tactics in this campaign. Very dirty, racist tactics. Nevertheless we beat them. But Mr. De Klerk has made a contribution. Without him, we could not have made this progress. It would...
...Afrikaners. ((Viljoen, whose party won 2% of the vote, is seeking an Afrikaner state.)) The entry of Buthelezi into the elections and now the fact that he is going to serve in the government of national unity will actually reduce violence in Natal, and perhaps it will disappear altogether. As far as the question of the Third Force ((of right-wing security-force elements allegedly subverting democracy)) is concerned, we have taken over the army as well as the police. Mr. De Klerk tried to say, "If you take defense, give us the police. Or if you take the police...
...most shy people my friends know," Gahan admits. "I'm a private person. But for water polo I put on a different persona, I definitely don't disappear during the game. It's something I've never quite figured out," she says...