Word: voiding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...slumped in the barber chair and looked into the big mirror. A blank, "How'd you like it, sir? Short? Medium? Long?--The barber's cagerly flat voice jarred him out of the void...
...take a well-annotated score. From the Norse "Erst was the age when nothing was; Nor sand nor sea" the creation melody runs through the Egyptian "Heaven had not come into being, the earth had not come into being," comes finally to Genesis: "The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep." Editor Smith apparently believes repetition of such motifs is enough, provides few program notes...
Wiry, sharp-witted Economic Director Jimmy Byrnes this week served blunt notice that even if he has to void laws he is going to attack the worst aspect of the price control snarl, namely that while luxury goods prices (see p. 83) are being held down food prices are soaring...
Just before the aerial was about to fall into Cummings' arms, someone knocked the ball into the hands of Cleo O'Donnell who was trailing close behind. Field Judge A. W. Palmer ruled that Cummings had batted the ball to O'Donnell and that the play was thus void on the grounds that two players on the same team cannot touch the ball consecutively on a forward pass...
...Door Shuts. Arrest came to Author Koestler with the words "Hands up!", and he learned how it feels to have a revolver chilling the back of one's neck. Near the base of his skull he felt "a faint itching, a sort of sucking void, not entirely unpleasant." At the police station his hypodermic needles and morphine tablets (for suicide) and his golf stockings (he wore them because he dislikes garters) caused a minor sensation. He was registered as wearing women's stockings. Then the cell door slammed shut. Koestler's description of what happens to prisoners...