Word: undo
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...book, Gardner notes that pseudo-scientific theories are sometimes the work of brilliant men who can construct quite intricate puzzles for others to undo. Ives Goddard of the Smithsonian Institution makes the same point about Fell's work: "Fell spends years putting together his information...He's constructed an elaborate puzzle for us to solve...Recently I spent a couple of hours with a reporter and we looked up several of these words [from Fell's lists comparing ancient European languages and modern Indian tongues]...they can all be refuted, but in the end it's a waste of effort...
...rather wishes she had been born into-her television set. James is a puritan: a beekeeper, a man who splits elm at 20° below zero, a myth maker whose hero is Ethan Allen, not the Fonz. James hates Snoopy, Coca-Cola, California, astronauts (they are there to "undo him") and, above all, television. One night James takes out his 12-gauge shotgun and blasts away at Sally's picture tube as if it were the devil's eye; when she objects, he chases her upstairs brandishing a length of stovewood...
Fascinated by that episode of psyching, Foote began to muse on the emotional pitfalls that can undo even the steadiest of players, and decided that the subject was ripe for investigation. Since then, with the help of tennis-conscious TIME correspondents across the nation, he has been busy surveying the social phenomena of the tennis scene. The result: this week's cover story, which Foote wrote. He tries to play tennis twice a week and describes himself as "an occasional shotmaker with an indomitable will to lose...
After more than a month of virtually no rain, the skies over much of Western Europe finally opened last week. But the downpours came too late to undo the damage already suffered by farmers in northwestern France, Belgium, southern England and northern Italy. Only an estimated 92 million tons of grain, instead of the anticipated 108 million tons, will be harvested this year, says Petrus Lardinois, the European Economic Community's farm commissioner. The sugar-beet crop will probably total 9.5 million tons-1.5 million tons below expectations. Lacking fodder, many farmers are slaughtering part of their livestock herds...
...meets the week before the August convention, it may well adopt Reagan-sponsored planks opposing abortion, the exchange of ambassadors with China, and further negotiations over the future of the Panama Canal. Even if Ford squeezes out the nomination, he may be stuck with a platform promising to undo some of his own policies...