But when the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union dissolved in 1989, the western alliance's main reason for being disappeared.

VOA: standard.2010.06.11

The roadway between hotel and harbor wall had in recent moments disappeared.

NEWYORKER: Fjord of Killary

His resolve is tempered by thoughts of a friend's disappeared daughter and of the wall of water he just outran.

WSJ: A Nation's Vigil of Hope and Loss

Paul Gray, 50, disappeared when he climbed over a wall and into the pit after Craig Whipps became submerged in the slurry at Albyns Farm, near Ongar.

BBC: Essex farm workers 'overcome by slurry'