Word: voiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Washington stood firm in its opposition to Botha's policies. Warren Clark, the alternate U.S. representative to the U.N. Security Council, declared that the U.S. "rejects the establishment of the so-called interim government in Namibia as null and void. These institutions created by Pretoria have no standing." The U.S., however, along with Britain, abstained on a Security Council-passed resolution calling on member states to "consider . . . taking appropriate voluntary measures" against South Africa over its action in Namibia...
When their guards were up, the experts in Indianapolis tended to talk in the void jargon of management science: proactive modes, assessment of capabilities, lethal-type substances impacting on the environment, mass- casualty situations. Of course, those in the catastrophe business have a better excuse than most for their tendency toward euphemism. "I have found," said the Rev. Fred Page, a Presbyterian minister from Ruston, La., "that using the word morgue with someone who has just lost a loved one may not be best...
...eight members of the Class of '88, particularly first-line wing Lane MacDonald (who set the Harvard record for goals scored by a freshman, with 21) and hard-hitting defenseman Jerry Pawloski shone in various roles for the Crimson, filling the void left by the large Class...
...Administration suspend a contract to supply fuel to India's two U.S.-built Tarapur power reactors. The installation has been governed by international safeguards since 1963, but India refuses to accept the principle of all-embracing inspection. In retaliation for the U.S. pressure, New Delhi warned that it would void the existing Tarapur safeguards agreement. If carried out, that action would have totally removed the complex from all outside control, and would have set a bad precedent for the nonproliferation system...
This missing voice, however, did not create a void in the music. The ample harmonies of Christine Collister and Clive Gregson backing his own low growl, Thompson easily negotiated his way around the tough arrangements of songs like "Wall Of Death," from the last album he did with Linda, Shool Out The Lights. His eyes closed, his face grieving, he showed that he did not need his "better half" to continue the show he has run for the past twenty years...