Word: voided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blue permission cards, which were distributed during spring registration, are now void Monro said. "They were a clumsy effort," he continued, "to handle a situation that did not develop." A new system, he explained, will have to be found for next year...
...portions of Thera collapsed and sank, Galanopoulos suggests, the sea rushed in to fill the void, lowering the water on all eastern Mediterranean shores. As a result, a narrow bridge of land separating the Sea of Reeds from the Mediterranean temporarily widened -just as the Jews making the Exodus were about to flee across it. Shortly afterward, the waters that had surged toward Thera raced back in a huge wave that caught the pursuing Egyptian troops on the land bridge and swept them to their deaths...
...case, the Supreme Court agreed. Danny had confessed to complicity in his brother-in-law's murder, but only after Chicago police had refused to let him see his lawyer, who was in the station house trying to see him.* Not only did the court void Danny's confession: it held that every arrested American is now entitled to consult his lawyer as soon as police investigation makes him a prime suspect...
Hypocrisy v. Disaster. In choosing these cases, the Supreme Court revealed Escobedo's potential dynamite: all but one of the confessions were apparently true and voluntary; most of the defendants probably could not have been convicted without their confessions. Yet the court is being asked to void all the confessions by reading into Escobedo a new standard: that police must warn all suspects at focus point that they need not talk, that anything they say may be held against them, and that they have a right to counsel, furnished by the state if necessary...
...seem particularly courageous to produce a play so hard to ruin, but courage isn't the best measure of good theatre. And it isn't as if Earnest presents no pitfalls to void. The Agassiz production, in fact, sidesteps one of them a little too closely. Wilde's jokes can easily be over-exploited, with the result that you laugh hard at the outset, but tire around the middle when the characters become little more than the jokes they spout. It is rather like watching a star-studded cast and not being able to forget who they...