Word: invalidism
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...Orders Invalid...
...suit alleges that all induction orders are invalid because of a provision in the new Selective Service Act requiring a 90 day moratorium on inductions following Presidential signing. President Nixon signed the law September 28. The suit contends, therefore, that inductions can't legally begin until December...
...coat closet and falls haplessly in love. To complete the obligatory triangle, the too-busy husband, Andreas (acted, Thank God! by Max von Sydow), makes an occasional phone call or brilliant goodbye on his way to and from the hospital. He is a surgeon, by the way, not an invalid; we see Elliot Gould sprawled in a graveyard, and the claim, at least, is that he's an archaeologist. Andreas invites David to dinner, David soon invites Karin to bed ("Well, why don't we just take off all our clothes and get into bed and see what happens...
...room. Or crouched motionless before a rose, as if he could devour it and the whole world just by looking. Finally attention is drawn to those eyes: great smudged pools, staring like a lover at life and death. The eyes of a Jew, a homosexual, an invalid and an artist-a foreigner to all countries. What was his favorite Dickens novel? Bleak House. How did he like his coffee? Double strength. Was he a generous tipper? He overtipped...
...jury system into a powerful political weapon in the government's battle with the American left. Ever since early 1969--when Attorney General Mitchell used an Illinois grand jury to reopen an investigation of the Chicago "conspiracy", a case which Mitchell's predecessor had judged to be empty and invalid--similar juries across the country, in St. Louis, Seattle, Tucson and, most recently, in Harrisburg, have conducted sweeping investigations into the activities of radical groups and produced the now-familiar "conspiracy" indictments in turn...