Word: invalidism
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...government, said Home, its choice "is whether to treat the country as a chronic invalid, taking its temperature and feeling its pulse every five minutes to see if it is strong enough to be told the facts of life, or whether to assume that the body politic of the country is robust and its mind mature and its heart sound and to tell the people what the hour demands, confident they will rise to the occasion. The country has a right to assume that men's minds will be as modern as the machinery they tend, that private enterprise...
Hoadley also raided a coed's apartment with a search warrant later discovered to be invalid. The prosecution told the press that he had been watching the coed for a long time because of her connection with YSA. She and the YSA both denied her affiliation with the socialist organization, and she threatened a libel suit...
Brooke told reporters yesterday that in his opinion the Commission is "legally constituted" and said his office would oppose a motion in Suffolk Supreme Court by former Governor's Councilor Joseph Crimmins to have the Commission and its work declared invalid. Crimmins was indicted last month on bribery charges stemming from the Crime Commission's investigations...
...upmanship won that round, but the Guatemalans have never given up. Little does it matter to them that Guatemala never once held the swampy, New Hampshire-sized territory east of its border (see map)-or that in 1859 it signed a boundary treaty recognizing British sovereignty. The treaty is invalid, argues Guatemala, because Britain reneged on a promise to build a road across the frontier. The road, says Britain, was supposed to be a joint project. British Hondurans, all 90,000 of them, want no part of annexation by Guatemala; they speak English, are predominantly Negro, and have few ties...
...that county, unwritten law is that the owner of a sheep killer should shoot the dog himself. But Laing, who bought Ricky in 1956 as a gentle companion for his invalid mother, refused to believe that the dog was guilty. He hired Roanoke