Word: voided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nine-year rap at hard labor. This occurred in 1958-one year after Miss Mapp's offense. But Linkletter's greatest misfortune was that his conviction became final 15 months before the Supreme Court's Mapp decision. Nonetheless, he appealed on the ground that Mapp should void his conviction...
...Zones of Privacy." What roiled the court, however, was the question of whether to void a law based on the power of every state to regulate public morals. Speaking for the court, Justice William O. Douglas asserted that "we do not sit as a superlegislature," playing God with noxious laws. But to Douglas, himself thrice married, Connecticut's law collided with an overriding right-privacy in marriage. In a judicial sonnet, Douglas extolled marriage as "a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring and intimate to the degree of being sacred . . . an association for as noble...
...shape meant five. Three fingers clenched meant three hearts; three fingers spread apart indicated six. Four fingers together meant four. A holding of seven hearts or more could be indicated simply in the bidding. Holding the cards in the right hand instead of the left indicated a heart void...
Tethered to his Gemini space ship by a thin gold cord, astronaut Edward H. White II stopped into the void yesterday and became the first American to float alone in the hostile emptiness of space...
...With 126 of Congress' 282 seats, the coalition has more than the one-third necessary to block all government legislation and be come, as Valencia himself admits, "unbearable opposition." Rojas seeks more than that. "In the congressional elections next March," he vows, "we will get enough votes to void the National Front and move right into the Presidential Palace...