Word: reappearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...formerly chief epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. Thucydides' description, Langmuir theorized, fit the criteria for influenza complicated by toxic shock syndrome. And although this peculiar combination of ailments had never been observed by modern physicians, Langmuir predicted that "Thucydides syndrome," as he called it, "may reappear," perhaps as part of some future epidemic of influenza...
...WHAT'S the point? This is a ridiculously bad movie; I saw it on Tuesday and by the time you read this column it will probably have completely vanished from the theaters, only to reappear Monday in cardboard boxes on video stores shelves throughout the nation. If there is any justice in this forsaken world, the cellophane will go undisturbed until the Apocalypse, when the damned souls will be forced to watch it for eternity...
...mission to the Lebanese capital. Just before his scheduled departure from Beirut early in the week, Waite announced that he had re- established contact with the Islamic Jihad and promptly drove off into West Beirut with his usual bodyguard of Druze militiamen. As time passed and Waite did not reappear, both Anglican officials in England and Waite's Druze protectors repeatedly assured the press that he was in no danger. Said a Druze spokesman late Friday: "He is fine, and he is still negotiating with the hostage holders...
...places where faith begins to reappear are those where science and technology fail or fall short. You may look back at us and say that no age in history ever grappled with so many painful and complicated moral problems, but you will also see that no age did so much to create them. Thanks to our dogged inventiveness, we are now in a position to keep a body functioning as a biological organism without allowing it real life. We know everything about sex, except how to keep teenage girls from pregnancy. We are on the verge of being able...
Over the Pacific, U.S. spy planes fly under radar coverage, then reappear close to the Soviet border and turn away at the last moment, listening to the Soviet radar responses...