Word: cancellation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this message across, he shuttles between being mad (angry) and mad (crazy), which is a little like trying to combine Marx with the Marx Brothers. Each tends to cancel out the other. In The White House Murder Case, a minor crisis of statecraft is in progress. "Operation Total Win," a maneuver launched during an undeclared war against Brazil, has suffered a slight setback. A U.S. nerve gas known as Peace Gas has floated astray and killed 750 American boys...
Then, in April, the SDS occupiers of University Hall demanded that the University cancel the evictions of these tenants, whose apartments they alleged Harvard was "planning to tear down to expand its Medical School facilities in Boston...
...They didn't treat us like actors in the beginning." he said. "They tried to make us believe we were a tribe of people united by a common bond and cause. We really believed that up until the time Lamont Washington [a Hair actor] died and they wouldn't cancel the matinee to let us go to the funeral. And we suddenly realized that they were using this hairy love thing as an incredible hype to get us cheap...
However, Massachusetts residents have three days, not ten, to reconsider and cancel contracts they sign with door-to-door salesmen. I am afraid your writers overextended our credit...
...future battles, the lower house yielded halfway-but no more-to a campaign of unprecedented presidential pressure. By separate majority votes, it approved a report that accused three members of cooperating with the Communists. At the same time, it ignored another of Thieu's demands by refusing to cancel the three Deputies' parliamentary immunity to criminal prosecution...