Word: undo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Darwin's conclusion is that the human race will have all sorts of ups & downs, perhaps even some more temporary Golden Ages. But the philoprogenitive pressure of its sociological molecules will undo it in the end. No matter what science, government and religion try to do about population, humans will increase like fruit flies in a geneticist's breeding bottle. Stability will come only when starvation sets an impassable limit...
...night and Harrison walks in sporting a black cape lined with red velvet on his arm and an evil sneer on his lips there is no question about his supernatural identity. After picking up a blond WAC (Lueen MacGrath) who confides that she is really an angel sent to undo Harrison's deviltries, the group hops off to a nearby castle containing Miss Harrison as the sleeping beauty...
...commanding desire for a change," Hopper said, "is in order to make a fresh start in strategic thinking, to undo insofar as possible, the blunders committed at Teheran, Yalta, and Potsdam." He attributed these mistakes to "untimely export of American good will and superficial understanding of the nature of totalitarian regimes," and added that a "Democratic regime, no matter who the President, would be anchored in the blunders which lost Poland and China to the Free World...
...House of Commons last week Prime Minister Churchill sent the first of the long-awaited Tory proposals to undo six years of Socialist nationalization. In a brief but explosive White Paper, Churchill proposed to return to private ownership Britain's long-distance trucking business. "A dangerous avenue," muttered the London Times. "Vague and . . . thoroughly reactionary," objected the Manchester Guardian, and "very bad politics." Poorly planned, added the influential Economist...
...wing air force (see chart). It was after this decision that the House of Representatives, also weighing politics against the military estimate, slashed the 1953 Air Force budget still further, and pushed the 143-wing date to 1957-or beyond. In trying to get the Senate to undo the House's damage, Air Secretary Finletter testified last week: "[The President's] decision was made for fiscal reasons, and from the military point of view contains an important element of risk." The House cuts, he added, will "endanger the safety of the country...