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Word: voided (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before this season, Keller had never played the middle position. But the sophomore was persistent, filling the ominous middle void with a stable presence...

Author: By Lisa R. Eskow, | Title: Men Spikers Impressive This Year Despite Turmoil | 4/18/1985 | See Source »

Rather than alternating between sexual allusions and sexual illusions in the style of the generic teen flick. Reiner uses the cross country trip scenario as a chance to wink, gently but snidely, at the void that is Middle American culture In smaller but still delightful doses. Reiner offers the same subtle satire that made This is Spinal Tap! the best comedy of last year...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Meathead Strikes Again | 3/22/1985 | See Source »

...Cambridge residents void complaints against the Harvard force Police Chief Johnson told the Cambridge City Council last year and had reiterated this year that if anyone has bone to pick, his "door is always open. But Johnson may have to install swinging doors and borrow extra time to field the complaints in addition to his normal duties. An established review board would be much more practice than informal meetings with the Police Chief for addressing citizen concerns Powerful public agencies like the police need surefire checks and balances, now isolated protestations of concern...

Author: By Charles C. Matthew, | Title: University Police Need Monitoring | 3/21/1985 | See Source »

...seen in the history of Western civilization, he convinces the Devil that the sun has come up, that time is up. All is found to be complete except for one item specifically mentioned in the contract--a black cat; but no cat, no soul, the contract is null and void, the Devil loses, and Nicholas is allowed to keep his soul. Such were the days before Federal E. press...

Author: By Yoon SUN Lee, | Title: The Devil Made Me Do It | 3/8/1985 | See Source »

...Zone, a resourceful handling of football and nuclear war, brought him wide and serious attention. But without bestseller sales figures or a dependable cult following, he has become something of a reviewer's writer, a provider of topical allegories ripe for explanation and interpretation. Great Jones Street confronted the void of celebrity, and Ratner's Star measured the gap between science and humanity. There were terrorists in Players, spies and pornography in Running Dog and cult killers in The Names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death 'N' Things White Noise: by Don DeLillo | 1/21/1985 | See Source »

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