Word: backwardation
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...corner and they are not going to give an inch until they can force the white people of the community to submit to their demands-in fact, swallow them all." (The Negroes demand seating in buses on a first come, first seated basis, with whites seating from the front backward, Negroes from the back forward.) Mayor Gayle was specially vexed about the white families who give car rides to their Negro help, or pay their taxi fare. He said that the cooks and maids who boycott the buses "are fighting to destroy our social fabric just as much...
...ticking metronome, tom-tom beats, bubbling water, air hose, cow moo, boing! (two types), oscillator, dripping water (two types) and three kinds of wine glasses clicking against each other. Judiciously blended and recorded on tape, the effect was still not quite right. Then the tape was played backward with a little echo added. That did it. The sound depicted the manufacturing of babies in the radio version of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World...
...declared that in America we are "inescapably committed to collectivism and governmental intervention." This same type of intervention is also necessary in backward countries, Thomas said, where state control must build up countries until they can handle the raised standard of living possible for them...
...made tremendous efforts in helping to save the world from aggressive tyranny, and in building up at her own expense destroyed or backward countries. How tragic it is that the gratitude of the free world, which should flow to the U.S. in consequence, is being weakened by the apparent failure of U.S. trade policy to admit that in the arithmetic of international trade two and two make four...
...decisions that men saw changing the skylines of the cities, turning poor farm land into prosperous factories (and parking lots), bringing new credit and buying power into backward areas-these were the decisions of American businessmen. (In fact, while the Supreme Court attacked segregation in schools, businessmen attacked it in industry by: 1) raising living standards of Southern Negroes, and 2) teaching whites and Negroes to work side by side in new Southern factories.) All through the year, industry exploded to catch up with the twin demands of the mid-20th century: a rapidly rising standard of living...