Word: invalided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wife found him dead of a heart attack. His heart had been weakened by the stress of decades of persecution and by his hunger strikes and their inevitable consequence: forced feedings and deliberately inadequate medical care. "We won't let you die, but we will make you an invalid," a doctor told...
Three weeks ago, a delivery van was towed because of an invalid registration. The following week, police threatened to arrest a driver for having a photocopy of his registration and not the original...
SWAT joined the complaint partly to dispel club charges that the complaint was invalid because Schkolnick had already graduated from the College. Members of SWAT said in April that including their organization as a party would guarantee that there would always be a direct connection between the case and current Harvard College students...
...World War II. In a sharply worded declaration, a coalition of popular-front leaders denounced the Soviet occupation and demanded the right to "restore independent statehood." The day before, a special commission of the Lithuanian parliament had declared that the U.S.S.R.'s annexation of the republic in 1940 was invalid, flatly contradicting Moscow's denial that the protocols had any bearing on absorption of the Baltics...
...extradite to the U.S. any of the 80 drug thugs indicted by American prosecutors without getting a judge's signature on the order. That end-runs one of the biggest barriers to punishment of the gangsters: an intimidated Colombian Supreme Court in 1987 declared a U.S.-Colombia extradition treaty invalid on the flimsiest of technicalities. Both Washington and Bogota officials declare that the drug lords fear extradition more than anything else because they cannot terrorize judges and juries in the U.S. as readily as they can those in Colombia. The gangsters agree. Their communiques have been issued in the name...