Word: backwardation
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...were reddened by the glare of flames from police trucks set ablaze by 14,000 rioters outside. They could hear the howl of the mob as it acclaimed the martyrdom of a 22-year-old coed named Michiko Kamba, who had been trampled as the stone-throwing mob reeled backward under the charge of 4,000 nightstick-swinging policemen...
...east, and their joint contempt for the Moslems in the north, is a major obstacle to peaceful nationhood. Kenya's warlike Masai dread the thought of national power in the hands of the clever Kikuyu; and for the majestic (6 ft. 6 in.) but backward Watutsi of Ruanda-Urundi, education and all the talk of one-manone-vote sounds suspiciously like the death knell for four centuries of unchal lenged supremacy over the fast-rising politically conscious Bahutu, who have long been virtual serfs...
Voters in two backward Andean countries last week brought back a pair of ex-Presidents to office...
...negotiations could eliminate "a gulf as wide and deep as the difference between individual liberty and regimentation." Instead of trying to build peace from the summit down, the U.S. could now set about building it from the base up, by creating bold yet practical programs for helping the backward nations march toward freedom and abundance, by winning the uncommitted nations to commitment, by keeping the U.S.'s own economy sound and its defenses strong...
...have a chance of going into orbit around the moon, a space vehicle must make its approach at just the right speed and angle. To chivy itself into this ideal situation, the S.T.L. moon orbiter will have two engines-one firing forward and the other backward. The backward-pointing engine will have four tubes, each with two explosive valves, permitting it to be started and stopped four times by signal. The forward-pointing machine will have two tubes, giving it two starts and stops. Ground-controlled alternate firings of the forward and rearward engines are calculated to keep the orbiters...