Word: undoings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Burger Court was a disappointment to conservatives. The six Justices appointed by three Republican Presidents from 1969 to 1981 failed to undo the extraordinary record of judicial activism compiled by the liberal Warren Court of the '60s.* Most galling to the right, the Burger Court gave women a constitutional right to abortion in 1973. Divided and unpredictable, the court was Burger's in name only. The most controversial cases were decided, often with confusing split opinions, by a shifting center of five or six Justices...
...hours on end, the small army with ice picks chipped away, trying to undo the winter's work in Moscow. Thousands of men and women, ordered to turn out for subbotnik, a Saturday of so-called voluntary unpaid labor, cleared streets and sidewalks of slippery patches. At the same time, tons of special food consignments were flooding into the city for proud display in store windows. Convoys of black limousines snaked through the streets or lolled at curbside. And everywhere throughout the country, from Vladivostok to Kaliningrad, red banners and billboards appeared bearing the Roman numerals XXVII...
...result of a series of friendly pranks between my room and three friends upstairs. They came down with squirt-guns, we fought back with shaving cream. They locked us into our room by "pennying" our door, and spilled water and baking soda on my roommate as he attempted to undo the door, (after getting out the window) and we responded by pouring cologne under their door. Finally, two of my roommates decided a better joke would be to put incense under their door and smell up their room. This led to the accidental fire, and thus, a hearing with...
...student participation in policy-making; two centuries ago it was "butter that stinketh not." Two years from now it may be divestiture, the draft, needblind admissions, a new foreign war, or something totally unforeseen. If we reject these for safer issues today, they will return to haunt us and undo our "safe" work tomorrow...
...deepest. There are social nuances in every garment, highborn or not. A man's white cotton overblouse can be tied in 58 ways, each with its own social connotation. The knots at the waist of a courtesan's skirt could be so intricate that only she could undo them: fashion as a fail-safe device. A contemporary turban, worn by an ironmonger, shows in its coloration and style of wrapping the wearer's occupation, his residence and his marital status: fashion as calling card...