Word: undoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...European settlers. Holt also hopes to make it easier for Asian executives and technicians who come to Australia on assignments for their companies to bring their wives and families with them. Commented Sydney's Morning Herald: "The minor changes that Holt has mentioned will go some way to undo the immense harm caused by the present rigid white-Australia policy...
...never too late, he believes, for a sedentary, flabby man to undo the damage of neglect, to slow the aging process and regain a measure of youth. The program is spelled out in detail in his new book Physical Fitness and Dynamic Health (Dial Press; $5.95). Not only does carefully planned, all-out exercise improve circulation, but, insists Cureton (a Ph.D. in physical education), "maintenance of sound circulatory condition may even forestall the onset of serious chronic diseases" as well as strengthening the heart, easing psychological tensions and cutting mental fatigue by toning up the body...
...function of groupings of mankind, then we must honestly admit the polarity of our feelings. Therefore, however erroneously "race" may have become a major theme of recent history, it does have practical significance; and it must be faced carefully and creatively--if we are ever to undo its consequences. The selection of the terms, African and Afro-American--rather than black, or colored, or Negro, or non-Caucasian, or non-white, or ...--may be interpreted as an attempt at a redefinition that would be neither necessarily racially exclusive nor inclusive, but to which the idea of "race," if applied, would...
There have been 16 ounces (Latin undo) to the English pound (Latin pondus) ever since the Romans invaded Britain MCMXXII years ago. The yard is 36 inches long because England's Henry I (1100-1135) decreed that it should equal the distance from a man's outstretched thumb to his nose. Indeed the whole British system of weights and measures is fraught with tradition, and for that reason it is frightfully hard to work with, as generations of British schoolchildren, agonizing over gills, pecks and rods, have learned...
...Club octet for a short sport at 7:20 a.m. When he learned that my choice of eight singers included a Negro, he warned that this octet, appearing at the beginning of the day would give segregationists a chance to organize violence or threats of violence which could thus undo all the good to be gained by having the event...