Word: voided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entering the City Council chamber. They did so by insisting that the lab containing this potentially dangerous research be built in the antediluvian Bio Labs, in the middle of one of the nation's most crowded cities. A simple, political, but not necessarily correct decision, would have been to void that choice, and propose a new facility built from scratch...
...this applies to specific prisoners seemed almost to be a matter of luck. Mandatory death penalties in 20 states, which have 278 death-house prisoners, are now apparently void. On the other hand, 310 prisoners are under death sentence in 14 states with laws much like those that the court approved. Though their lawyers will doubtless make new appeals and seek to gain time, they now face the clear possibility of execution...
...past few seasons the Theater of the Absurd has seemed like an endangered dramatic species. Purebred examples of the genre, with their vaudevillian non sequiturs, wryly autumnal philosophizing about existence and wackily disconcerting knee-jerk humor, have become rare. In part, audiences have adjusted to the metaphysical void that permeates absurdist drama, the absence of meaning and purpose that so puzzled and infuriated them when the early Pinter plays appeared...
...Loyalist Governor William Franklin, last week adopted a new constitution that provides for a bicameral legislature to elect a relatively powerless Governor. Only 26 of the 65 legislators voted for the measure (30 abstained and 9 opposed), however, and even they insisted that the document would be null and void in case of a reconciliation with Britain...
...Basque restaurant during lunchtime, Capote was out to make his readers throw up while his characters ate. But he is merely a sniggering Boy Scout compared with Jonathan Swift, who, in A Tale of a Tub, had a character kneel in the street to pray, then void his bladder in the eyes of the passersby leaning over to investigate...