Word: backwardation
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...lead our recently enlightened brethren into the modern age." Poverty & Corruption. But, as TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs reports, Ethiopia is not a likely candidate to lead any country into the modern age. Despite Haile Selassie's tentative efforts at reform, Ethiopia is still one of the most backward nations in Africa. Parliament rubber-stamps the Emperor's absolute rule. The press is rigidly controlled, and informers and secret police agents are everywhere...
False Start. The obvious solution was an airplane with wings that could be changed in flight. Several planes of this type were built and rejected; they flew, but not well. Principal trouble was that when their wings were slanted backward, they applied their lift far backward too. Control became all but impossible...
...wing roots. Only the outer segment of the wing is movable. On take-off the wingtips are extended, and since they, too, are fairly thick, they give plenty of lift, allowing the plane to take off at slow speeds. As speed increases, the wingtips are slanted farther and farther backward...
...Issue, as she would have written it) in Thirkell books is the regrettable march of progress; now and then someone will remark that Things are Not as They Once Were, and the rest of the guests at tea will agree that This is Bad. But progress mostly marches backward; a theme of several Barsetshire books is the evolution of the crude factory owner, Sam Adams, into a mellow squire by marrying one of the lesser county girls and becoming Acceptable...
...phone company is presently bending over backward to be nice in such in stances, but the DDD honeymoon may not last forever. In the not-too-distant time when any idly spun combination of seven numbers will ring somebody, some where, stern household telephone discipline will be needed, or Daddy's phone bills may be in seven figures...