Word: undoings
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While the war continues, however, we must not permit our domestic programs to be dismantled. We have worked too hard, fought too many battles to allow the Vietnam war to undo what the forces of conservation could not undo...
...insult to the established order. They had placed a complex public address system in the trees that surrounded the house, and they soon took to broadcasting at the neighborhood: "This is non-station KLSD, 800 micrograms in your head, the station designed to blow your mind and undo your bind, from up here atop the redwoods on Venus." Or they would invite say all of California's Hells Angels for a visit to the community of La Honda...
...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...