Word: voids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only views that echo the leadership are allowed, there is no way to speak of real freedom of speech." Though April Fifth Forum had a circulation of only 1,000 before publication was suspended early last year, it was, according to one Western diplomat, "a twinkle in a vast void." Thus the arrests of Xu and Yang further weakened an already anemic democratic movement. It has been on the retreat since Dissident Leader Wei Jingsheng was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in October 1979, two months before the Democracy Wall was stripped clean and put off-limits...
...world has adopted two different strategies toward luck. Much of the planet for most of its history has tried to woo and conjure and appease it, longingly courting the force to draw near, to descend from the void of the random for an instant and shower fortune on some lucky head. To ward off luck's malevolent side, the infection of a curse, the evil eye, populations have danced and chanted and worked with charms. To predict its whims, they have studied omens, birds' flights, goats' entrails; they have consulted gypsies and star charts...
Another major problem in the Black community is that it is "void in charismatic leadership." Gloria Toote, former assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development, said, adding that Blacks do not encourage young Blacks to serve...
...year after scoring a team-leading 30 goals in his freshman season. He was also the team's top face-off man. Attackman Forbush, the team's assist (32) and overall scoring leader last year, should be back in a week or so. I he void created by the two players' absence is indisputable...
...those damn bears. They are now squaring off-and should not be." Which means that the seal does not conform with its statutory definition. Which means, in turn, that every gubernatorial order stamped with the seal for nobody knows how many years may be invalid. "Perhaps not null and void," Barnes says, "but probably voidable. That would sure mean a bunch of paper work down the tube." Like any good politician, Barnes is fighting paper work with paper work: he plans a resolution that would affirm those hundreds of "voidable" acts -and correctly pirouette the antisocial bears...