Word: invaliding
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...Democrats' turn to object. Their policy committee denounced the amendment because it implied that the secret agreements might be invalid. The Republican policy committee insisted on the change. Instead of unanimous support, the declarations against enslavement, as amended, seemed headed for a close party-line vote, so close that the resolution would lose its intended impact on the enslaved peoples...
...comes among a widow who had married unwisely for love; her two daughters, one beautiful and besought (Janice Rule), the other bright and coltishly adolescent (Kim Stanley); her boarder, an old-maid schoolteacher with an unmatrimonial-minded beau; her next-door neighbor, a middle-aged woman chained to an invalid mother. The roughneck and the beautiful girl fall hard for each other: there is a climactic scene where they dance slowly and sexually, while the other women look on-awed, envious, aroused. The fellow is sent about his business in the end, but the girl follows...
...fact, the man was alive, though drowning inwardly of dropsy and so weak that he could scarcely move a finger. There was nothing for it but to strap him in an armchair and hoist him over the side like any common lading. As the winch turned and the invalid rose lurching, the sailors and dockmen burst into jeering laughter at the pitiful figure...
Order was finally restored. When the tellers counted, they found that the Reds had surreptitiously packed in more black balls than there were deputies in the Chamber. The vote was declared invalid...
...that time, the plan has gathered considerable opposition from library officials for its "impracticality." Invalid singly, their chief objections are no more persuasive taken together. Librarians charge, for example, that commuters look like everyone else and residents could take advantage of the similarity to sneak books out for themselves. Yet, library officials could easily identify the commuters by checking their names with the commuter list. Since there is no congestion at the check-out desks at five, the plan would neither interrupt routine nor require increased personnel...