Word: invalidism
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...January, the nation's first national elections were ruled invalid by the Prime Minister, Chief Leabua Jonathan, when it became apparent that his party was about to lose. Jonathan, a chief of Lesotho's major tribe, the Basuto, had King Moshoeshoe (pronounced Mo-shway-shway) put under house arrest for daring to support the opposition. Last week the king was whisked off to exile in The Netherlands...
June 24: Received a letter saying that my family would no longer receive a pension. I understood this to be moral torture. My elderly, sick wife and my son, who has been an invalid since childhood, were deprived of any means of support...
...come to the victim's aid if there was no response, and two women observers boarded an Eighth Avenue express. The victim, wearing an Eisenhower jacket and old slacks, stood near a pole in the center of the coach. He carried a cane if he was playing an invalid; if feigning drunkenness, he smelled of liquor and carried a bottle tightly wrapped in a brown paper bag. After the train departed the station, the victim suddenly staggered, collapsed and lay on the floor...
...hearings were invalid-The so-called Committee on Rights and Responsibilities is not impartial. If it were, the summonses which students have received would not have told them that they have already been found guilty. It were, the hearings would not be held behind locked doors and guarded by policemen. "read a recent OBU press statement...
...Massachusetts prepared the papers necessary to waive rendition, a process that would only have delayed canonization. But Brady refused to sign them, claiming that since he had been legally declared incompetent by the state, his signature would be invalid. There was a week's wait, and then, Brady, styling himself as the innocent being led to the slaughter, came back to the scene of his alleged caper...