Word: annulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seemed to fear that in the future they might want to form an obstructionist minority. They, and the present opponents of effective civil rights legislation, fail to see that minority rights are those protected by the Constitution; the freedom of a minority to debate is not the privilege to annul the will of the majority, when that will would respect minority rights...
...balance is delicate, and any last-minute deal among supporters of the three contenders might well determine the outcome on election day. If APRA and Haya de la Torre should win, they face the possibility that Peru's military men, emboldened by the Argentine example, will attempt to annul the election. Odria already accuses APRA of trying to rig the voting. "If the government allows fraud, there will be deeds not words," shouted Odria at a rally in Lima. And last week the army, which is charged with supervising the election, reported the discovery of 1,591 falsified voting...
...military. On his own, he went to the Supreme Court to be sworn in as President. Poggi, who had been drafting a decree naming himself President, hastened to cross-examine Guido until he was convinced that the new President would not stand in the way of a drive to annul the elections that the Perónistas won, smash Perónista trade unions, and suppress Perónism completely...
Italian Cinemelon Sophia Loren, 27, had her day in court on two continents. In Rome, her fond discoverer, Producer Carlo Ponti, was racing to annul their marriage before they could be booked for bigamy (Italy does not recognize Ponti's divorce from his first wife). In New York Supreme Court, where Sophia was suing Bronston Productions, Inc. because she was billed below Charlton Heston on a Broadway sign ballyhooing El Cid. Justice Samuel Hofstadter chucked out her requested injunction. Said he: "Such vanity doubtless is due to the adulation which the public showers on the denizens of the entertainment...
...will probably wind up at Harvard) to his fourth wife. "I repose complete confidence in my beloved wife Mary," it continued, "to provide for [my three children by previous marriages] according to written instructions I have given her." Literary style of the testament: a stilted legalese ("I hereby cancel, annul and revoke . . ."), presumably cribbed from previous wills and marred by the misspelling, "siezed...