Word: invalided
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President said that he signed the appropriations bill for the sole reason that the Defense Department urgently needed the money. Then in a rare but not unprecedented step,* he announced flatly that the executive branch would pay no attention to the section that it considered invalid...
...South is helpless . . . Rather, it is to enter upon a long course of lawful resistance; it is to take lawful advantage of every moment of the law's delays . . . Litigate? Let us pledge ourselves to litigate this thing for 50 years. If one remedial law is ruled invalid, then let us try another; and if the second is ruled invalid, then let us enact a third...
...Dorothea Dix for its theme; it was they who insisted .on showing scenes from her early years-because they wanted to show the root causes of their heroine's own neurosis. The curtain went up on Dorothea as a nine-year-old drudge doing chores for her invalid mother (who was 20 years older than her minister-husband). Before a shabby house in Hampden. Me., neighbor children chant tauntingly: "Dorothea can't play." Not until she is 14 does the play show Dorothea happy, living with "My Aunt Sarah, who was my first real friend." In Boston...
...already exists. Command will continue to be in Moscow, the top brass will still be Russian, and the troops will still be of as dubious loyalty as before. But by making a show of erecting an overall organization, Bulganin could also promise to demolish it. "The treaty will become invalid," he said, when "a European system of collective security is established." How can collective security be established...
...More Try. In Seattle, Leon Hubert Harent, 80, a stoop-shouldered invalid barely able to walk, handed a post office clerk a holdup note demanding $1,000, was arrested on the spot, admitted that he had been in prison for robberies almost continuously since 1894, added sadly: "I'm not very handy at anything; I've never been much of a success...