Word: voiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...basketball level, his death has left far more than a void on the 12-man roster. He has left the fans searching for someone to root for. Searching for that special someone who could turn heads, who could evoke screams of passion, who could simply make you dream about playing the game of basketball...
...eggplant, and tell tall tales of how they made soup out of clam shells stolen from the back door of a seafood restaurant; a sausage-maker chants an ancient rhyming Italian recipe while she kneads meat. From here, reality glides quickly away with no emerging theme to fill the void, and the movie, like Teresa, can only say to itself: "This is my punishment...to become nothing...
...came back from the void alcohol had eaten into his life. He came back from death itself when emergency medical technicians revived him after his heart attack. And he came back to Harvard to tell a story that may spare someone the journey he has taken...
...hard enough for a child to lose a parent. But when AIDS is the killer, the pain is all the more profound. Since most of the infected mothers are single parents, no father is around to fill the void. If the mother's drug use had caused her family to spurn her, relatives may be unwilling to care for her kids. Moreover, the stigma of AIDS causes many families to keep the cause of death quiet. The surviving children are isolated in their shame. "If they know, they usually don't tell anybody," Clymore notes. "Not their best friend...
...immune system. It was invented, in fact, around the turn of the century, for the precise purpose of giving middle-class women something to do. Once food processing and garment manufacture moved out of the home and into the factories, middle-class homemakers found themselves staring uneasily into the void. Should they join the suffragists? Go out in the work world and compete with the men? "Too many women," editorialized the Ladies' Home Journal in 1911, "are dangerously idle...