Word: invalided
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stages the play against the backdrop of the 1940s; it is a story of love and betrayal, which are relevant in any time period. In this production, the ailing King (Bob Kim '97) seems more like a president than a monarch, and is reminiscent of the well-loved but invalid FDR. Costuming by Holly Maples (a B.U. student) also lends a hand to creating the atmosphere of America 50 years ago: for the wealthy ladies, dresses you'd expect to see on Greta Garbo; for the less affluent girls, simpler, plainer dresses suitable for Betty Crocker. The most charming detail...
...announced that he had chosen six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the new Panchen Lama. Officials in Beijing were enraged, and soon thereafter, Nyima disappeared from his home village along with his parents, prompting accusations of a Chinese kidnapping. The communist government declared the Dalai Lama's choice invalid and proceeded with its own selection via the golden-urn method, which some Tibetans claim is used only when all other divinations fail...
...profits from the oil industry, the military government of Nigeria instituted a crackdown resulting in the deaths of over 2,000 of Saro-Wiwa's tribes people. In 1993, during the transition from military to civil government, Abacha imprisoned Chief Moshood Abiola, the democratically chosen president, declaring the election invalid...
Unofficial counts suggest that about 19,307 people went to the polls in Cambridge yesterday, although some ballots may be ruled invalid. In the last city election two years ago, 22,140 votes were cast...
...referring to the infamous verdict, "It's a justice system that for a change has worked. The jury believed that that racist character (Fuhrman) laid that evidence." Yet after boxer Mike Tyson was convicted of rape some years ago, Muhammed told The Bergen Record that the guilty verdict was invalid because "Indiana is the home of the Ku Klux Klan...