Word: invalidly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know their . . . rehabilitation centers. They're wonderful." He hopes to be sent to the sunny Black Sea coast-perhaps to the very spot where his friend, French Communist Boss Maurice Thorez, spent two years demonstrating his faith in Soviet medicine before returning to Paris, an aging invalid (TIME, April 20). "They'll probably give me electrical treatment and sulphur bath . . . I'll just put myself in the hands of their doctors. I'll go on the bill of the Russian miners, I suppose," Li'l Arthur said. "I'll see you [in five weeks...
...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...