Word: voided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...magazines make their debuts this week, one an old trouper in a gaudy new dress, the other a flossy stranger dedicated to filling a self-discovered void...
...born in Upstate New York. But he owed nothing to their plodding example, for Dove was a trail blazer. Long before fashions changed. Dove pointed-and painted-toward abstract expressionism. After a start as a successful magazine illustrator, he turned to illustrating inner vision rather than outer void. Wrote Humorist Bert L. Taylor of Dove...
...fill the void, Cobb drank heavily, haunted golf courses (his opponents were advised to let him win), delighted in carping on the inadequacies of modern ballplayers and in teaching youngsters the fine points of baseball. He once counseled a teen-age catcher: "You're doing fine, son. But here's something you might try. When the pitcher has already thrown the ball and the umpire is looking at it, you grab a handful of dirt and fling it up into the batter's eyes...
...dust gatherer is a bother to the housewife, but it is a boon to the scientist. By sending rockets into space to trap meteoric dust, scientists hope to learn some of the secrets of the great void beyond the earth's atmosphere. Last week they were evaluating the catch of the best dust gatherer yet developed: an Aerobee-Hi sounding rocket, which unfolds its nose toward the top of its climb and spreads out eight graceful petals into space like a great mechanical flower...
...Cuban government also declared open war on that classic enemy of Communism, the Roman Catholic Church. Castro announced: "In the next few days the Revolutionary Government will pass a law declaring void any permit to remain in Cuba held by any foreign priest in our country." New permits might be issued, but only if a priest "has not been combatting the Cuban revolution." The fate of Cuba's 400 Spanish priests also awaits its 139 church schools. Said Castro: "We announce here that in the next few days the Revolutionary Government will pass a law nationalizing the private schools...