Word: vanishingly
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...affairs, discovers something worse-a pretty young schoolteacher who not only has her own whimsical version of the facts of life, but is seeking the facts of death from a ghost with whom she has romantic rendezvous. The inspector tries in vain to exorcise the ghost, who refuses to vanish until he notices the girl unconsciously responding to a flesh-&-blood suitor. Even then the girl all but dies of losing him; it requires a whole persuasive symphony of mundane attractions to woo her back to life...
...summer he would vanish to his farm in upstate New York to mend roofs, trudge through the mud and bargain at cattle auctions. In spring he played on a campus softball team known as Carman's Indians. He himself often wondered whether he was the type for "deaning." "Here," he once said of himself, "is a good dirt farmer gone wrong...
...lose, 10-9, threw away another game to the cellar-dwelling Washington Senators, 9-8, when two Yankee infielders let an easy pop fly fall between them for a hit. This week, after losing two straight to the challenging Boston Red Sox, the Yankees saw their lead vanish as Boston drew up into a dead tie for first. In spite of ill luck and an astonishing succession of injuries (70 since the season began), the nervy Yankees had hung on until the final week of the season. Then, after a third straight loss to Boston, they sank wearily to second...
...readers, the Post was running "Today's Pitching Form" -"official" daily gambling odds on the big-league games. In an editorial, Jimmy Wechsler lamely explained that he was just giving his readers a fielder's choice. Wrote he: "We do not believe the gambling urge would vanish if we left this arithmetical intelligence out of this newspaper . . ." The Post gets its odds from a "reliable" Jersey handbook, presumably a member of one of the "powerful gambling syndicates...
...hear his quiet-toned discourses, and at Balliol's long, oak-topped high-table with its silver candlesticks, notables came from all over the world to dine and talk with him. But in his spare time, when his Oxford duties were done, the master was apt to vanish...