Word: undoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wanted to discount it, and the Soviet Union to put an end to it because Syria had suffered a setback in spite of the presence of Soviet military experts and I had a victory in spite of the expulsion of Soviet military experts. And Israel, of course, wanted to undo our victory...
...chips are used to compose music, draw Op artistic pictures and write poems. They will never be Marvells or undo Donne?but they are trying. Poet-Novelist Carol Spearin Mc-Cauley notes in her book Computers and Creativity (Praeger) that the well-programmed computer is freed from "the confines of English grammar, syntax and common usage ... The machine's lack of shame, so to speak, frees it to express many things that a writer, by habit used to excluding or censoring the ungrammatical, awkward or ambiguous, would not consider." Marie Boroff, an English professor at Yale, acted as muse...
Librarian, I am cold. Pray you, undo this button. Thank you sir. Do you not see the gazelle on the rushing waters? I know he looks at me ("What if Harry Levin wrote the poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay?"). I am sleepy and oozy weeds about me twist. "Chirp...
...single elephant. In a preface to his book The End of the Game (Doubleday; $9.95), whose new edition accompanies the show, Beard argues that the wild Africa of the 19th century is finished anyway, and is already beyond the ministrations of game policy: "It is too late to undo what has been done ... To understand this is to begin to realize that we have conquered nothing at all." To the wild's disappearance, Beard's photos append a haunting requiescat. pending a haunting requiescat...
...dispute only about when to act. Officials at the State Department and National Security Council want to continue the threat for another year; the Labor Department wants to pull out now. Anti-U.S. rhetoric at I.L.O. annual meetings does not, in the view of even its harshest critics, undo what the I.L.O. has accomplished over the years. But it does divert and distract the organization from its basic business of helping the world's workers...