Word: vanished
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Even if there had been no other fossils in the nest, the discovery of an embryonic oviraptor would have been important. Dinosaur embryos are rare -- fewer than a dozen kinds have ever been found. Juvenile animals often have features that vanish as the creatures grow, but which also exist in the embryos of their precursors or descendants (human fetuses, for example, start out with tiny tails). If researchers can find common traits in unhatched dinosaurs and birds, they will be able to establish stronger links between them...
...combat or love. O'Brien shows us Wade as a lonely, pudgy 10- year-old, practicing magic tricks before the mirror, hoping to conjure a callous father's love out of thin air. "The mirror made his father smile all the time. The mirror made the vodka bottles vanish from their hiding place in the garage, and it helped with the hard, angry silence at the dinner table." At his father's funeral the 14-year-old boy "wanted to kill everybody who was crying and everybody who wasn...
...Spotted a gigantic and unusual star that is shedding matter so furiously it will eventually vanish rather than explode and collapse into a black hole...
...must change. She came up the hard way. Her childhood will shortly be folklore: her father disappeared from Dnepropetrovsk when she was two; her mother died at 36 of cancer when Oksana was 13, leaving the child without blood relations to turn to. Her coach was the next to vanish -- emigrating to Canada to seek a better future than struggling Ukraine could offer. It was then that Zmievskaya took over...
...accuse one another of wrong-doing: each refutes the other's very right to existence. Early in the first act, Martha says to George, "I can't even see you...I haven't even been able to see you for years." Later, George dismisses Martha, willing her to "Vanish. Vanish...