Word: voiding
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Horse lovers mobilized to halt the slaughter. "But it will be hard," said one M.P. pressing for Parliament control of the market, "to make Strachey [Minister of Food] do anything to limit this revolting business. After all, a horse steak fills the void...
Harry Brunner lived in a circle of fear. He feared life and, when war came, feared death. He trembled before the burdens of love and dreaded the void left by its absence. Watching himself as if he were a diseased stranger, relishing his troubles as if they were sweet delicacies, he could never act simply or spontaneously. Even after he had seen action as a naval flyer in the Pacific, he knew that his real war had to be fought within himself...
...Oklahoma City last week, a three-judge federal court ruled "unconstitutional and void" a state law that barred Negroes from the University of Oklahoma's graduate school. The judges, all Oklahomans, did not outlaw segregation, but insisted that Negroes must have equal facilities without delay, or be taken in with white students...
Under the new rules, old book cards, hitherto renewed each term, are now void. New cards will be issued only to those veterans who have excess eligibility time which apply to tuition and books...
...Language, Truth and Logic, had "acquired almost the status of a philosophic Bible" at Oxford. It insisted that "value judgments" of beauty and goodness were, philosophically speaking, nonsense. They were moral sentiments, not facts at all. Such heresies, "Oxonian" thought, left no place for human values, created the moral void fascism required...