Word: validity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rome's sweltering Monte Citorio Palace, where the Constituent Assembly met, the three parties refused to accept De Nicola's refusal. He was the one candidate for whom Christian Democrats, Socialists and Communists had agreed to vote together. Out of 504 valid votes, De Nicola...
...adequate. William Mendrek is a figure of bumptious incompetence as the casual prig who, in a poor imitation of a young English squire, half-heartedly tries for and loses the girl. This summation leaves three leftovers: a detective and two maids. The former has, if nothing more, an almost valid English accent; the younger of the latter two proves that it doesn't take an American Army to put a Limey biddy in a family...
...admitted, as it must be admitted, that such a faith is peculiarly liable to the perils of self-deception and the excesses of fanaticism, with the sad tragedies and the moral scandals which so often ensue, it still remains true that the principle is valid...
...elections were, on the whole, free and fair, and the results represent a true and valid verdict of the Greek people...
...first news of the offer Ernie Bevin announced Feb. 21: to turn the 20-year Anglo-Russian friendship pact into a 50-year treaty. Stalin said that Churchill's warmongering speech made the present pact "an empty scrap of paper." He implied that he no longer considered it valid himself: "Problems of the duration of a treaty have no sense if one of the parties violates the treaty...