Word: disappears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they got gloriously drunk and ran off. One way to tempt them back was for First Officer W. L. Garner to perform his amateur conjuring tricks. On Christmas night, with the dam nearing completion, Conjurer Garner, performing in the glare of truck headlights, made a Belgian five-franc piece disappear from the hand of a small native girl. She let out a piercing scream, her arm became completely stiff, and the natives grew menacing. "She knows the money is inside her arm," grunted the native chief. "Makes her sick." Conjurer Garner hastily improvised a new trick: extracted the coin from...
...remember being pinned between the gunwale of the lifeboat and a rope which was held taut across my chest. The davits were within a few feet. Beneath me was a tangled mass of ropes, oars, iron and foaming water. I saw the red-faced man disappear into this turmoil, and then I was in it myself. There was a roar of rushing water, which almost but not quite obliterated the noise of screaming...