Word: undoings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Premiers office. For the United Nations, all this was a venture into uncharted political water, far beyond anything that its original architects had envisioned. In just one new nation, 16,000 troops and millions of dollars were committed to keeping order, handling all the household problems, and trying to undo the actions of the Premier who had invited the U.N. into the country in the first place. With more countries getting independence nearly every month, Dag Hammarskjold might well wonder where it all would...
...horse, a rat have life and thou no breath at all?" In the extremity of human despair ("Thou'lt come no more") he utters his towering, fivefold "Never, never, never, never, never!" Then the dam of his unbearable anguish breaks with the homely request, "Pray you undo this button." No one but Shakespeare would have dared put those two lines together; no one but Shakespeare could...
...have come upon a copy of a new book by Senator Barry Goldwater called The Conscience of a Conservative. I cannot accurately convey to you the shock I experienced at reading a series of proposals which would undo every important social advance in this country over the past 50 years...