Word: disappearance
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...this is not surprising. During the last fortnight his confusion has been built into delirium. Every night at dinner two giant speakers blare weird music at him. It is the music that is distracting his mind. It is the music that is making the milk sours and the spoons disappear. It is a violation of most fundamental human rights to dignity, and peace, and privacy...
...rafters. Across the Savannah River in South Carolina, the aluminum glint of hundreds of trailers winked among the pecan groves. Giant bulldozers ripped through slash pine and red clay, pushing a four-lane, 20-mile express highway from North Augusta to Ellenton (pop. 700), a town soon destined to disappear before the bulldozers' onrush...
...considerable influence upon the traditional life of the college. The academic side dominates the student's relationship to Vassar, and the highly organized extra-curricular activities consume much of the rest of her time during the week. But on weekends, the blue jeans, sneakers, dirty shirts, and text-books disappear, and so do most of the students...
...Like a thief in the night, Jesus will snatch up your loved ones. Little Billy and Mary will be taken from their beds, your husband may disappear without a trace. Engineers will vanish from the cabs of speeding trains, pilots from their planes. Those left behind will run frantically through the streets, meaning and tearing their hair." By this point, the crowd had reached a state of frenzied despair. "Oh Jesus spare me," screamed a white-haired old man. Several women in the fourth row were looking at a train schedule to see how soon they could leave town...
...time." Take Herbert Hoover now, on the other hand, he conceives things on a far more grandiose scale. In order to buy a small but unknown number of years of uneasy peace for the Americas, he is perfectly willing to let all other peoples of the world disappear into abject slavery behind the Iron Curtain...