Word: voided
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just listen. Kuhn acted as technical adviser at the workshops and feels they were "rather successful." "A lot of people had a chance to play, and some learned something. It folded last year when Beckwith graduated." Although many jazzmen miss the workshop sessions, no one has filled the void with initiative...
...since West held 15 of the deck's 40 high-card points (according to the Goren system of counting four for an ace, three for a king, two for a queen, one for a jack). But Goren, on the safe-side assumption that either North or South was void in clubs ("I had a strong suspicion my ace of clubs would not live."), refrained from doubling. Upshot: South made five spades, finessing West's king of hearts and discarding a heart on North's ten of diamonds...
...phone conversations are usually void of such time-wasting nonsense as "hello" and "goodbye," and he often hangs up when he has said his piece, leaving the fellow on the other end of the line dangling in midsentence. He can stare daggers at a visitor, or just as easily ignore him with supreme aplomb...
...shall impose upon, seduce and betray into matrimony any of His Majesty's subjects by virtue of scents, paints, cosmetic washes, artificial teeth, false hair, iron stays, hoops, high-heeled shoes, or bolstered hips, shall incur the penalty against witchcraft, and the marriage . . . shall be null and void...
...dozens of military and civilian laboratories across the U.S., researchers are working under pressure to perfect ways of keeping a human being alive and functioning efficiently when he soars into the void of space (TIME, May 26). None of their problems is as will-o'-the-wispy as weightlessness, the gravity-free state that will envelop man when he orbits around the earth or reaches for the moon and planets. Reason: in the earth's atmosphere and gravity belt, this unearthly state can be created only for a fraction of a minute at a time. To learn...