Word: invalidism
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...meetings. Within two months of my father's inauguration, my mother suffered a brain hemorrhage which rendered her unconscious for four or five days and from the effects of which she never fully recovered. For the next two years she had, most unwillingly, to accept the role of invalid. During the whole period of my father's presidency I doubt whether she visited the executive offices half a dozen times...
Chevalier is sly and charming as the invalid invalid. Gingold is pure gold as his nutty nurse, a suspicious spinster who sleeps with a large sheepdog in her bed and keeps giving her patient ambiguous invitations-"If you want a pill," she murmurs, "call me." Fast company, that, but Goulet somehow contrives to stay with the pace. And Williams, a young singer who looks like Bing Crosby and sounds like several other people, carries off the wackiest sequences in the picture...
Nothing of Value. Having made it clear that Indians were less than welcome, Ne Win next made it impossible for them to take anything of value when they left. Large-denomination banknotes were abruptly declared invalid, and even after that, adults were allowed to take only 75 rupees ($15.75) out of the country with them. Though Indian women traditionally convert their cash into gold jewelry and even decorate their children with bangles and bracelets, the Burmese stripped departing Indians of all their jewelry. Many Hindu women were forced to give up the gold and black mangal sutra necklaces that they...
...expropriated American investors had persuaded lower courts to uphold their claim to $175,000 in Cuban sugar receipts deposited in New York banks. They wanted the Supreme Court to ratify this decision, arguing that foreign seizure decrees are invalid if they violate international...
...months later by the panic of 1873, wrote signed editorial columns for the Santa Barbara paper until his death in 1936. Storke's son Charles, now 52, joined the News-Press in 1932, and he was clearly heir apparent. (Another son has been a lifelong invalid.) But Charles got impatient; the old man simply refused to retire. Besides, Charles's wife was bitterly opposed to all suggestions that their own son work on the paper. In 1959, Charles quit the News-Press for good and moved his family to Mexico City...