Word: undo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...install a pro-Communist regime-or sovereign Rumania would cease to exist. With Soviet troops in control of the country and no hope of help from Britain or the U.S., young Michael capitulated. The Kremlin's choice as Premier: Plowman Groza. A year later Groza helped the Communists undo the promises of Yalta for free elections by arranging an elaborately rigged election which confirmed Rumania's paltry Communist minority in power. In December 1947 Groza bounced young King Michael off the throne and into exile...
...like to go to Rome and fight for the Pope's charity. Then I'd like to put on an exhibition in Tel Aviv. Then I'd like the State Department to let me go to Russia and put on a few fights there-undo some of the harm that guy Faubus has done this country abroad...
Tiny Lebanon prospers by being the toll bridge between the West and the Arab world, and it preserves its bit of independence by a masterly balancing of opposites. It has not held a census in 15 years, because a census would probably undo the useful fiction that it is almost exactly half Christian, half Moslem. Its electoral balancing act is unique in all the world. Having long been plagued by bloody religious feuds, Lebanon now sees to it that every man running for the same office is of the same religion...
...heart is that if the surgeon inadvertently puts a stitch through a nerve bundle (which can later prove fatal), the quiescent organ can give no signal of distress until the heart is sewed up and filled with blood-and by that time it may be too late to undo the damage. In recent months several noted surgeons, including Blalock, Dodrill and the Mayo Clinic's John Webster Kirklin, have decided that the advantages of stopping the heart outweigh the risks...
Mollet was prepared to stake the life of his government on the vote he demanded. Would the French Assembly now try to undo every compromise French negotiators had made? Warned Foreign Minister Christian Pineau: "It is not necessary to travel abroad much to discover that in the last five years France has acquired a reputation for being unable to make up its mind. If we say no to the- Common Market, we will convince the entire world of our inability...