Word: disappears
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, most of the male characters come off poorly in The Thorn Birds. A fairly typical sentence runs: "She eyed his flaccid penis, snorting with laughter." The ambitious men are silly and the steady ones are inconsequential. Meggie's eight brothers either die or disappear into the woodwork. Women seem to live forever, while every hundred pages or so another man is burned alive or disemboweled by a wild boar or drowned or unsexed by gunshot wounds. None of this carnage is required by the plot. The males are punished because their punishment is what romantic fiction requires...
...team was unanimous in its conviction that this suicidal inconsistency would disappear as the young players gained experience, but you can stick with that line only so long. Many of the current sophomores have been regulars for almost two full seasons now. Tennis sat on the bench as a reserve middie until the middle of his junior season, but by the next spring he was the team's big gun, playing best in the closest games. Are the two situations that much different...
...Repression is an extension of economic exploitation, and the one will not disappear unless the other disappears," he said...
...were about to attack the next hangar, a smaller one, when an efficient Teterboro policeman drove up, a stocky black-leather trooper who politely said that the blue executive had summoned him and that he would arrest us if we didn't quickly disappear. We retreated to Manny's Cockpit Restaurant, with its bicentennial decor, to dry off and plan strategy and punish ourselves with thoughts of condominiums and never-more-than-ten-minutes-of-rain-a-day. Two dozen yards off, Bruce was pumping gas into the Miami-bound Lear jet, and we couldn't look for its pilot...
...embargo in 1973, we held a second conference, recognizing that in a few short years, the energy crisis had become one of the greatest challenges facing the free world: How do we continue our present course, and grow in the future, as the fuels that power our lives disappear...