Word: voiding
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Which gains in pitch until I see Dim, distantly a void...
...Soviet Union, "at the request of its allies ... as a loyal ally," was keeping its promise. Tokyo's failure to heed the Potsdam terms-terms to which the Soviet Union now subscribed-had rendered the previously denounced but legally binding Russian-Japanese neutrality treaty null & void. (For once, the western allies had no mind to belittle a soviet cynicism...
...politics. He has been a lifelong advocate of Japanese collaboration with Russia. He supported this idea when Russia was ruled by Tsar Nicholas, continued to support it after the Bolsheviks came to power. In the 1942 Japanese elections he was so popular that the Government did not dare to void his candidacy, and the Supreme Court acquitted him of lèse majest...
...Clouds of Time. The Emperor Hirohito's millennial origins were lost in the clouds of time. In the beginning, say the Japanese history books, Heaven & Earth were one, a primal protoplasm drifting in the void like a jellyfish on water. Then the Universe took form. On the Plain of High Heaven the first gods appeared. The Sky Father, Izanagi, stood upon the Rainbow Bridge to Earth and dipped his jeweled spear into the sea. The drops that fell, as he withdrew the blade, congealed into the Japanese archipelago...
...building, the principal posted sentries at all the doors, called the police. A detective, six patrolmen, and a posse of teachers searched the whole building. All they found was splattered ink and taunts chalked on the walls. Once again the Phantom of P.S. 12 had dropped into the void of Superman and Captain Midnight from which he sprang...