Word: undo
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Mail Call. But such contrition was not enough to undo the damage. The impact of the Hume note had given all the President's private correspondence an enormous curiosity value and had prompted the world to expect the worst. A letter to Louisiana's Congressman F. Edward Hebert, which ordinarily would have aroused only passing interest, made Page One and caused a second round of lugubrious headshaking...
Europe's problems were a lot different from what they were in 1948, Gray reported. Industries were humming, trade (in most cases) was sound, and dollar balances were far beyond expectations. But now the demands of rearmament threatened to undo all the good by creating inflation. Gray's prescription was the same old one: only a dosage of U.S. dollars (separate from military aid) could save...
...Germany, the outcome of such a move would be to undo our post-war policy of impressing on the German population that is was "militarism more than anything else that was the crux of the recent German misfortune," Friedrich argued. In this regard, he added, it is significant that the results of a recent poll showed that the people of western Germany were against the formation of a German army...
...Century Finger. The Tormentors is motored by two main ideas: 1) that the unjust ultimately suffer more than their victims, and 2) that in a society where brutality is normal, one man's kindness cannot undo the evil to which the society has bound...