Word: null
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...valid marriage. According to canon law, a marriage is valid if it has been properly witnessed and then consummated sexual ly. If some essential requisite in the sacrament is missing, the couple may later be able to gain an annulment, which means in effect that the marriage was null and void from the beginning.* Divorce and remarriage are out of the question, however...
...physical act of intercourse but as the spiritual union of two persons of which sex is the symbol. If it can be proved that this spiritual unity did not exist from the beginning, he says, the church might in certain cases be able to declare the marriage null and void. Still another approach is taken by three Dutch theologians, Fathers B. Peters, T. Beemer and C. van der Poel, writing in a recent issue of the Homiletic and Pastoral Review. They suggest that even if second marriages cannot be regularized, Catholics who otherwise display evidence of contrition and strong faith...
...developed tuberculosis. At 21, ignored by his mother and surrounded by doctors who tried to make him eat 64 live snails as a pick-me-up, L'Aiglon died. "Between my cradle and my tomb," he said not long before the end, "there is a great null." He had to be buried with a hat on because souvenir hunters had snipped off all his hair...
...during Kennedy's Administration I expected him to be the Secretary of State. Since he started the Senate investigation of Viet Nam policy [Feb. 18], I have been shocked. He could not choose a more inopportune time. I fear that the bitniks-pacifists will really succeed in making null and void all pur efforts to settle the war. I suggest making him a four-star general of the bitnik-pacifist army, and sending all of them to Viet...
...worth probing." Just how slim a chance was demonstrated when the U.S. managed to get its resolution requesting the U.N. to arrange a peace conference on the Security Council's agenda by a one-vote margin. Since Hanoi had already announced that it would consider any U.N. decision "null and void," the effort seemed less like peace-punching than shadowboxing...