Word: vanishings
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...part, they were welcome, even sought after. They constituted a willing and indispensable Lumpenproletariat for Western Europe's postwar boom, ready to do work no one else wanted to do. Their large families, their mosques, their exotic costumes and customs were merely transitory inconveniences. One day they would vanish: the "migrants," the gastarbeiters, the travailleurs immigrés would simply go home. But they stayed, and a new generation grew to adulthood: dark-skinned youngsters sporting the accents of Provence, Bavaria or the Midlands. Willy-nilly, the societies of Western Europe had become multiracial...
...them. Memories are peculiarly tenacious. Hitler may have discovered as much after the German High Command issued its Nacht und Nebel decree in the western occupied territories, enabling authorities to snatch citizens off the street and out of their homes under night and fog. "The prisoners will vanish without a trace," read the decree. They did not. They were traced in the minds of those who survived. Feelings are still harder to dispose of. The Argentine mothers were not patrolling the Plaza de Mayo in the name of revolutionary ideas, but because they missed those they love...
...African National Congress members alike. It was a remarkable show of unity from groups that historically have been at odds. The threat of a unified 22 million Blacks in South Africa will inevitably have to be reckoned with and no token reforms can make their persistent threat of resistance vanish...
...tight-lipped code of honor was another manifestation of the literary silence, posing as bravery, that lasted until his death of lung cancer in 1961. The act convinced no one, least of all his biographer. Johnson regards her subject without illusion. She knows that inspiration can arrive and vanish without cause and that Hammett's chief tragedy was in holding himself accountable for something beyond his gifts or character. Even so, as she sees it, he showed a streak of heroism, not in his work so much as in "the long blank years that prove the spirit." That kind...
...following Monday, they have either paid off the depositors or allowed another bank to assume control. But such transitions are not without cost. The FDIC spent $870 million last year, mostly to compensate private financial institutions for taking over bad loans. Moreover, bank shareholders can see their investments vanish when the financial institution goes under...