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Word: voided (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indication of the crime rate: At night, as residents are quick to point out, it is virtually impossible to find a regular taxi. Drivers flee to safer sides of town, often decline--despite stiff penalties for turning down passengers--to take anyone into the area. The void is filled by scores of unmetered and unlicensed "gypsy cabs," identified by a little orange light in the right-hand corner of the windshield. Fares depend pretty much on the mood of the driver...

Author: By Stephen E. Cotton, | Title: Politics and Poverty | 4/29/1967 | See Source »

...errant rocket in the view of millions on TV; in the instant incineration of a capsule out of control during the treacherous reentry into the earth's heavy atmosphere; in the coffin of a malfunctioning craft unable to descend that orbits, orbits, orbits in the spatial void while power ebbs and life leaks away in slow suffocation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: To Strive, To Seek, To Find, And Not To Yield . . . | 2/3/1967 | See Source »

...Bicker is supposed to get into a club. Last year only one Princeton man didn't make it. He seemed resigned to his fate. He had effectively rejected the system and even developed his own rational. "The clubs strike me as being an escape hatch, as being void of any kind of reality. The idea of being buddy-buddy just bothers me," he said...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: The Gentlemanly Revolt at Princeton Fails | 1/18/1967 | See Source »

Three-Ton Landscapes. There are few nudes to titillate the senses, and commonplace pop objects are generally absent. What has rushed in to fill the void is geometry, in so many varied forms that even Euclid would be puzzled. Sculpture, in this exhibition at least, has lost its Renaissance meaning and turned into ideological architecture. Big, bold, brightly colored shapes keep turning corners in the most subjectless, unliterary and unsensual art that the 20th century has up to the present produced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Poetic Emptiness | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

Bragg, who was backstroking for the first time this year, was a pleasant surprise for Coach Bill Brooks, especially since he also copped the 200 yard event. Harvard has long lacked a competent backstroker, but Bragg may well fill that void...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimmers Down Navy By Sweeping 4 Events | 12/12/1966 | See Source »

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