Word: undoings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skirmish, each side uses its leverage to unbalance Timmy. His mother is wounded by his sudden indifference to her demands. His father, who no longer enters his wife's bed, becomes a figure of sputtering frustration, visiting "hotel-lobby whores" and cursing what he loves. His incessant fulminations undo him; he wastes his thunder on minor disappointments, and he is empty when he gets the truly bad news that Timmy has abandoned the church...
...improve education, wipe out illiteracy and modernize agriculture. McNamara insisted that the time has come for the bank to invest more money in family planning. Unless checked, he said, overpopulation will add 3 billion people to the world before the century ends, and this crush of humans could undo most projected benefits...
...Greatest Era. In his letter to President Johnson, Warren gave age as his sole reason for retiring. Still, it is not unlikely that he might have been prodded, as Republicans guessed, by the fear that a President Nixon would appoint a conservative who might undo much of what he had done. Nor is it altogether unlikely? unless last week's nominations are killed by a Senate filibuster? that Black and Douglas, also liberal, might be goaded by the same fear...
...secure this achievement," he says, "like a mountain climber secures his foothold." It will be a difficult task, since U.S. legislators, prompted by shrinking markets for U.S. goods, are already considering a score of protectionist measures (TIME, April 12). Such measures would invite retaliation and the resulting dustup could undo years of bargaining almost overnight...
Corruption may be no worse in South Viet Nam than elsewhere in Asia, but it is far more costly. One corrupt official in a district or province can undo all the South Vietnamese government's efforts to create an image of responsible government genuinely interested in the welfare of its people. That image has never been more vital than in the days since the Communists' destructive Tet offensive. Last week, responding to strong urgings from the U.S. and from within its own ranks, the government of President Nguyen Van Thieu finally showed some signs of doing something about...