Word: invalids
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Although we may tolerate such irrationality in other sentencing contexts, the premise of Furman was that such arbitrary and capricious decision making is imply invalid when applied to a matter as grave as the determination of whether a human life should be taken or spared...
When Lyndon Johnson had a serious heart attack in 1955, a lot of people thought he would be a semi-invalid. His doctor, Vice Admiral George Burkley, found that Johnson's heart functioned normally through five years of the presidency. When Johnson, believing he would lose the 1968 election, reluctantly went home, he seemed to lose purpose, reverted to bad eating and smoking habits, and died in four years...
...necessary, of course, to adjust one's feelings about Venice before entering this show. Today's visitor thinks of the city as a tottery invalid, preserved by the skin of the teeth from the ravages of tide, effluent, mass sightseeing and economic slump. One's awe at Piazza San Marco is mingled with pity and even impatience, and the child in the tourist impertinently wonders how soon the whole peeling confection, gold, Istrian stone, gelati and all, will be swallowed at last in the lagoon...
Winter may have come to Broadway, but the Fabulous Invalid has a spring in its step. After a sour start, with discouraging box-office receipts and with La Cage aux Folles the sole hit among the new plays and musicals, the season cheered up at the holidays. December brought a British farce, Noises Off, its chaos as finely tuned as a Daimler engine, and Noises Off brought in the pre-Christmas crowds. Then the Christmas-to-New Year's week (traditionally the year's best for ticket sales) recorded a $6,058,815 total, the second highest...
...still not be over. Although no further counts are legally possible, referendum supporters watching the recounting process found about 38 ballots which might be invalid, Bruce Berman, consultant to the pro-referendum Committee for Quality Cable, said yesterday...