Word: voided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lodge's decision left no void among Republicans running for Governor. In the wildest G.O.P. melee in a millennium, there are still six candidates trying for a shot at Democratic Governor John Dempsey, 47, who moved up from Lieutenant Governor last year, when Ribicoff hied himself off to Washington. Dempsey inherited the big tax problems that Ribicoff's costly highway and education pro grams made inevitable. Of the six Republicans, two candidates seem to be ahead: John Alsop, Ivy-clad (Groton and Yale) brother of Writers Stewart and Joseph. Erudite and witty, Alsop - defy ing the cliches...
...again in 1828's "Tariff of Abominations," as its enemies called it. But excessively high tariffs tend to choke off international trade and push up domestic prices, and the Tariff of Abominations stirred up impassioned opposition. South Carolina even enacted a Nullification Ordinance that declared the 1828 tariffs void within the state. The boomerang result of the 1828 Tariff Act was a freer-trade movement that prevailed in Congress from the early 1830s until the Civil War brought on a new surge of protectionism...
...what I thought I was, but I can live with my guilt." To hear this unorthodox theology, ministers from university campuses across the nation come to study at Austin's community in the heartland of religious orthodoxy. They hear God discussed as the "void," and the traditional dogmas of the Virgin Birth, Resurrection and Holy Trinity dismissed as so much deadwood in the lumberyard of faith. Fundamentalists, in turn, dismiss the community as heretical, but the leaders of the group consider themselves to be "in the middle of the Christian tradition." How to Be a Layman. Now ten years...
...arranged between British India and Tibet in 1914, and named after the head British negotiator. Running across N.E.F.A. from Bhutan to Burma, the line set the border at the watershed at the crest of the highest mountains. But the Red Chinese declared the McMahon Line an "illegal, null and void" product of "British imperialism," claimed that the actual border ran along the southern foot of the mountains...
Speaking in Ames Court Room, Greenberg noted that there were only two fulltime Negro lawyers in Mississippi and none at all in Tallahassee, the capital of Florida. The shortage of lawyers has caused a void in civil rights activities over large sections of the South, Greenberg contended...