Word: backwardation
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...none of these. It is, in fact, the work of an advertising agency copywriter named Walter Kranz. He composed a singing commercial for a Denver clothing store, tape-recorded it, accidentally played it backward. It sounded better that way. Kranz made a transcription, took it to McCoy, and McCoy...
...Russia, with its backward industry and limited oil reserves, the jets are an answer to a Communist prayer. Jets are rugged, have fewer moving parts, only a few of which have to be machined to fine piston-engine tolerances. They do not necessarily need high-octane gas, but fly on kerosene, wood alcohol, or, as one U.S. officer puts it, even "on coffee or old rags." The NKVD was instructed to round up everyone in Germany who knew how to build jets. U.S. and British bombers had done the Russians an unintentional favor by making the Nazis push their factories...
...Admiralty dispatched four 1,710-ton destroyers from Malta to the Aqaba area. Said the Daily Express: "Britain's patience with Egyptian pretensions . . . wins her no credit among these backward peoples. Merely contempt." A London bus conductor fumed: "It's about time we shook our fist under their noses -those damned foreigners...
...poem is redeemed by an elegiac backward look to the early days of Paterson, when "the breathing spot of the village was the triangle square . . . Well shaded by trees with a common in the center where the country circus pitched its tents...
Previous to last summer, even I might have been misled by such statements as appeared in the article on Syria [TIME, June 18]: "Few countries in the world are more backward than Syria." However, having now seen with my own eyes conditions and the true situation, I must register my definite protest against such an irresponsible, unfactual statement . . . Everywhere were evidences of economic projects; new, modern industrial plants . . . irrigation projects; significant agricultural development, acres and acres of land being given over to growing cotton, tobacco and other crops which are making their impact upon a world market...