Word: voided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent years homosexual advocates have taken heart from a series of U.S. Supreme Court decisions establishing a constitutional right of privacy in many circumstances. The court has used the new right, nowhere specifically mentioned in the Constitution, to void laws restricting the sale of contraceptives, prohibiting possession of obscene material in the home and outlawing abortions. Even so, the court is obviously in no mood to extend privacy rights to sexual deviants, particularly homosexuals. Fourteen months ago, without even bothering to hear formal arguments, the court voted 6 to 3 to affirm a decision upholding Virginia's antisodomy statute...
...experience at Harvard. During this past year she had the title role in "Candida" and was in "Do It Yourself." Because of Harvard's repressive attitude towards combining performing arts with academics, turning creative endeavors into extracurricular activities, McClusky says, she hopes the Summer Ex-will help fill the void by providing an in-depth exposure through actual experience, a cram course for her fall auditions...
Benway testified in court last March 26, "I did have a real estate business but now 90 per cent of it is null and void...
Travel with me now, down a little lower on the back of your Bursars card, yes, the sacroiliac region--where the signature is. Start rubbing. Rub hard!!! Harder!!! That's it... You see it? What's the opposite of "firmament," in the biblical sense? You got it--VOID. All over where your signature used to be. VOIDVOIDVOIDVOIDVOIDVOID etc. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Everybody should rub their signatures off their Bursars cards, and see how long it takes for anybody to notice. A couple of years, I bet. And by then you'll almost be out of Law School...
...prolonged incarceration of several undergraduates for their participation in the April 30-May 1 occupation of the site of the proposed Seabrook N.H. nuclear power plant pointed to glaring void in University policy: the absence of any regulations concerning students whose academic standing in courses may be adversely affected by time spent in custody for explicitly nonviolent politically-related activities. The University presently advises such students to appear before the administrative Borad for special consideration on an individual basis but a formalized policy covering all possible instances similar to the experience of the students who occupied Seabrook should be discussed...