The officer disappeared into the station and was back within minutes.
Whatever had made the ship's two senior-most officers disappear, no one else wanted to be next.
Many officers and men disappeared during that winter, and even their bodies were never found.
I tell him the phone number and the officer disappears for a few moments.
The officers disappeared from the job for extended periods of time, and investigators are still trying to determine whether or not money changed hands.
They usually do that when an officer disappears; it looks better.
A moment later they opened, and the first officer disappeared inside.
Then, the officer, whose job it is to inform families of their loss, quickly disappeared without offering any comfort.
Within moments, the officer disappeared and the playacting turned real.
The officers, he said, would disappear from the job for extended stretches of time.