Word: voiding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lightyear, the distance light travels in a year, equals six trillion miles. † And the earth was without form, and void: and darkness was upon the face of the deep -Genesis...
With Both Feet. In Chicago, a young man who claimed he had been bamboozled by women dancing teachers sued to void contracts calling for $4,554 worth of dancing lessons...
...this collection of rustic short stories, Liam O'Flaherty finds himself in the uneventful void of an Ireland at peace, with only the piping curlews, the fragrant bogs, the blue hills and the boneheaded peasantry for his inspiration. Typical is his story of The Challenge. A drunken tinker stands in a Connemara market place after a fair, offering to tear the living heart out of any Connemara gouger who will fight him. A few feet away a young Connemara man offers to crucify any tinker living. The two bawl insults at each other till the Civil Guards arrive, then...
...Then they whooped through a resolution to "heartily commend and encourage" McCarthy's efforts. Only one man got up to object. Lawyer Perry J. Stearns, a candidate for the Senate seat of Alexander Wiley, shouted: "We are Republicans but Americans first," and accused McCarthy of producing "evidence entirely void of probative value." Boos filled the hall...
...Alfredo Musni was holding a gun at his back at the time. After the ceremony, Father Coronel said, he returned to his parish, finally managed to slip away from the ever-watchful Musnis and escape 600 miles away to Zamboanga. Last fall, after church authorities had declared the marriage void, Father Coronel returned to Manila. He filed a suit asking for a civil annulment and financial redress from the Musnis. He was met by the Musnis' countersuit for 100 pesos monthly alimony and 10,000 pesos moral damages. Alfredo Musni gave the following version of Gloria's marriage...