Word: undo
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...lived separately--and peacefully--in separate kingdoms on the island, the Tamils in the north and the Sinhalese in the south. Eventually the British came and colonized the island, and for administrative purposes, they united the island and called it Ceylon. When they left in 1948, they did not undo what they had done...
...much more so after her father made the questionable decision to subject her to a prefrontal lobotomy. With that episode as a constant backdrop, even the best-intentioned Kennedy efforts on behalf of the mentally disabled will seem partly an attempt to reconcile with a past the family cannot undo. But what may have started as something like a penance long ago is now one of the family's most useful devotions...
With her Jerusalem letter, Hillary was working hard to undo some of the damage she did among Jews in May 1998, when she made the mistake of saying what most Americans think--that the Palestinians should have a state of their own. (Her latest position doesn't preclude statehood, it seems, so long as the new state's capital isn't Jerusalem...
...maybe. But one was equivocal, and the other three said they would never have suggested a biopsy. That was reassuring but confusing. The fact remained that a skilled radiologist had raised the specter of breast cancer, and while other doctors saw things differently, I was stuck. No one could undo her written report, not in this litigious age. Meanwhile, the idea that I might have cancer had taken root. I knew that if I didn't have the tissue analyzed by a pathologist, I'd never stop worrying...
...echoing nearly every other presidentialcandidate, McCain promised to undo the damage hesaid was done to the prestige of the presidencyduring the Clinton administration...