Word: invalidations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Great Hamburg Blight--a disease as crippling in its way as the Dutch one that knocks off elms--has long since withered the sickly local strain. Harvard Square burgers are invariably thin and grease-sodden, often gray and crumbling, and occasionally even square in shape; encased in that permanent invalid of the American baking industry, the bun, they are, even so, mechanically consumed in sickening quantities every day. They cost anywhere from 15 cents to 40 cents. And every single one of them is accompanied, like a whale with its pilot fish, by a small, awkward slice of cucumber pickle...
...most gross misinterpreters are sportscasters. The idea of 'being due for a hit' is completely invalid scientifically. A 200 hitter who does not get a hit in eight attempts does not have a better chance of getting a hit on his ninth, according to the Law of Averages," Purcell declared...
From his minor actors, in particular, Wajda has drawn some striking performances. Several of the tangential characters are turned into important human beings, worth pausing over, and thinking about. Although Zbigniew Cybulski occassionally makes Maciek's confusion seem invalid, he always makes it understandable, and what more I could say about him and the other leads would be entirely favorable...
...coerce TWA into agreeing to buy from Hughes Tool 13 Convair 990s (which Hughes had already contracted to buy from General Dynamics). When the Tillinghast team decided instead to buy Boeing 707s, Hughes allegedly sought to queer the deal by warning Boeing that its contract with TWA was invalid because the airline had an obligation to buy from Hughes Tool...
...Presbyterians who would be made into bishops in the new church are inclined to say 'Nobody's going to lay a hand on me.' And there are Methodist bishops who would balk at another ordination ceremony on the ground that it makes their present ordination seem invalid...