Word: invalided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...invalid spinster Lady Constance Lytton, Judy Parfitt provides the uncanniest sense of the past recaptured...
...example of the purest form of bureaucratic nonsense. Congess should certainly repeal the law in question, since denying communists entry into this country on the grounds that they represent a danger to the national interest does nothing to insure national security. But, more importantly, the law itself is an invalid excuse for the State Department's behavior. All that is necessary to circumvent this dated law is a recommendation from the State Department to the Justice Department that a waiver of inelegibility be issued...
DOES this mean that one must dismiss the moral conclusions of the first Author, from Group Portrait With Lady, as just another reporter's invalid conclusions, turned out carefully as truths? Is this chronicler's psyche so immoderate, too, that his patient judgements about what the Social Democratic state has done to its people must be laughed aside? It is too simple to throw those judgements away...
After eleven women were ordained as the first female priests in the Episcopal church in a much disputed irregular service last summer, the church's House of Bishops declared the ordinations invalid. To the Rev. William Wendt, the ardently progressive rector of the Church of St. Stephen and the Incarnation in Washington, D.C., the bishops' ruling was an inescapable challenge. He permitted one of the women, Alison Cheek, to celebrate the Eucharist in his parish. Soon, 18 priests in the diocese brought charges of disobedience against Wendt, setting the stage for a rare ecclesiastical trial (TIME...
...nobody expects a strong rebound, much less a return to the robust exchange rates of the 1960s. Too many dollars spilled out by years of U.S. international deficits are still sloshing around the world, and as long as that continues, the once mighty greenback is likely to remain an invalid abroad...