Word: voided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election was poorly administered. One candidate actually helped supervise the counting; the fact that some ballots were improperly marked and thus void was not discovered for a full day after the results were announced; candidates were allowed to review the honesty of the count, but disinterested parties were not allowed in the room...
...Void. The week-long meeting, the first of its kind, was called jointly by the World Council of Churches and the International Missionary Council, to discuss the position of the Protestant churches in Southern and Eastern Asia. In addition to General Secretary W. A. Visser 't Hooft of the World Council and the International Missionary Council's Chairman John A. Mackay, the meeting included five bishops (from the Philippines, India and Japan), and delegates from almost every country in Asia...
...found nothing to feel smug about. "The imprint of Christian culture in Asia is lighter than the West assumes," said Visser 't Hooft. Said Dr. Mackay, president of Princeton Theological Seminary,' who has spent the past two months in the Far East: "There's a tremendous void in the heart of East Asia. The ancient religions are unable to explain the revolutionary changes that are taking place, or have no adequate ideas or attitudes with which to meet them...
...River-Bed. Unofficially, in his letters, Lafcadio Hearn told a different story. "It seems as if everything had suddenly become clear to me, and utterly void of emotional interest," he wrote a few years after his arrival. "There are no depths to stir, no race-profundities to explore: all is like a Japanese riverbed . . . never filled but in times of cataclysm and destruction." The Japanese government added to his disillusionment by easing him out of his university job. In the last years of his life he often longed to escape both family and country. He never did. A heart attack...
...chair, carved to fit your bottom, screwed immovably to the floor, with the right arm designed for writing on, that is widened enough to take one roundish shaped piece of paper or a clip-board, no place to put your elbow, a sort of island in a useless unfriendly void...