Word: undo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theme for what it was worth-and it was undoubtedly worth as much to sentimental German citizens as it had been to Britons who had been hardened in bitterness and vengeance by the Luftwaffe's blitzes. But bitterness and anger, even if they balanced fraying nerves, could not undo the destruction. Munich's twin-spired Frauenkirche might be wrecked, Hans Sachs's Nürnberg gone forever, Stuttgart's fine baroque palaces burned out, but there was another score, and Germans knew more of it than the British told...
...whom, is to be exercised. . . ." Promptly came the answer from Sir Alexander Korda, who snickered and rumbled in rich Magyarish English: "This Victorian phrase, 'with dismay' and 'cinematograph film' just slays me. You would think it would be someone from Barbaria who would come to undo a masterpiece. I just try to make a good 'cinematograph film.' " Famed Russian Directors Eisenstein and Pudovkin had promised to help, added Korda...
...Moslem League scheduled for the next fortnight. Said the Congress' Mohandas Gandhi: "In spite of my love for the British, I think their imperialism has been the greatest crime against India. The immediate thing, therefore, that the British Government should do is confess the wrong and undo it. Of the undoing there is as yet no sign visible in the Indian sky." The Moslem League's Mohamed Ali Jinnah still clung to the League's demands for a separate Moslem state...
When a squadron of Free French corvettes sailed into the harbor of St. Pierre on Christmas Eve and took possession of the islands in the name of General Charles de Gaulle (TIME, Jan. 5), Cordell Hull was downright mad. He feared this Free French coup might undo all his work...
Thus ended the last hope that the France of Henri Philippe Pétain and Jean François Darlan might be saved from Hitler's Europe. Scarcely had the Allier flowed another league than half a dozen collaborationist officials were on their way to North Africa to undo the work that Maxime Weygand had done. Marshal Pétain and Admiral Darlan packed to go to Paris-the Marshal for the first time since the armistice-to meet "a high German personage" and sign away the rest of their country's freedom of action. In Berlin seven...