Word: voiding
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...make the first descent. He buckled on his parachute harness, put a steel helmet over his woolen cap, adjusted his miner's head lamp and his altimeter, hooked his harness to the cable of the windlass and, after a quick handshake all around, stepped off into the void...
Values F.O.B. Ferris tries to fill the loveless void with cocktails, out-of-town stag sprees, and finally an affair with a rich divorcee, Mary Raeburn. While the whole town is clucking, Ferris discovers that Mary, in her own way, is as much of an emotional bankrupt as Enid. One afternoon he finds her doubled in pain from the need for dope; she is a hopeless addict...
When Joe Evans expanded his holdings westward, he noticed that New Mexico had the same religious problems as West Texas-the range country was too sparsely settled to support regular churches-and that there were no camp meetings to fill the void. In 1939, he took the problems to the Rev. Everett King, then secretary of the Northern Presbyterian's National Missions board. King was fascinated. "This is perfect," he said. "You know the ranchers and have the camp-meeting experience, but you have no equipment. We have the equipment, but don't know much about organizing camp...
...There are many ways for the European student engaged in scholarship alone to study in America through the Fulbright scholarships, and other such methods," says Kissinger, "but this plan fills a void in opportunity for the Continental man of affairs to learn something about America...
...into the swami racket himself. But just as he and his partner are about to put on their big show for the gullible, he learns what his own billing is to be: that of a saintly eunuch who has surgically rendered "his id and libido null and void." Much attached to his id and libido, Hatterr scoots off into the brush...