Word: invalid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stay open only 43 hours. Rain was leaking through the roof and into the stacks, endangering a number of the library's 6.5 million volumes. New Yorkers looked upon the library, supported for eight decades by a combination of private philanthropy and tax dollars, as a shabby invalid. Even "Patience" and "Fortitude," the majestic marble lions that guard the library's entrance, appeared sooty and defeated...
...miss my family," a young laborer on Olympic Boulevard said the other morning. In his village he has a wife, three children, a mother and an invalid sister he supports. With the money he earns in construction work or cutting lawns, his family gets along well at home, but would be terribly poor in East Los Angeles. So he works for two months, goes home for a month and returns. The loneliness is the only thing that gets him down...
...ALICE James not been born into the family of intellectuals that she was her life would be of little interest to the literary public. When she died at the age of 41, she had been an invalid since her first nervous breakdown at 19, and her only accomplishment was the diary which she had dept for the last three years of her life...
...however, include a grandfather clause which allowed any restrictions in place in July 1977 to remain. Since Carter had lifted the restrictions concerning Cuba on March 28, Hubbard's suit contended that Reagan's reinstatement of the restrictions was invalid and to impose them, he would have had to fontually declare a new state of emergency...
...Alexander's book, which offers a striking psychological portrait of the man. But instead of using this portrait as a jumping-off point for some broader observations, Alexander is content to stick to talking about baseball as a man with a Passion might--telescopically. The approach is not invalid, for Alexander offers a fair-minded and insightful biography. But this view is limiting and, ultimately, boring for the non-fanatic...