Word: backwardation
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...Sojong, close to the advancing North Korean Reds. Kenny aimed a bazooka rocket at an enemy tank, counted three while the rocket lobbed toward the target, then stuck his head & shoulders above the gun pit to watch. The tank's machine gun chattered and Kenny Shadrick tumbled backward, a bullet through his right arm, another through his chest...
Turkey is a tough mouse and an assault on it could be made only with Russian troops. By many standards Turkey is a backward country, but the Turks these days have a very simple and clear foreign policy: they are determined to fight on every goat path in the Taurus Mountains and to make the Russians pay & pay for every melon patch in Adana and every back alley in Erzurum. The Kremlin calculators will think twice or more before they take on a people whom they may well regard as Finns with mountains-and a people who would probably...
...what soft spot would the probing finger of Communist aggression aim its next jab? Western observers have long feared that one of the likeliest targets would be Russia's neighbor, Iran, a backward land perched precariously on the U.S.S.R.'s Middle-Eastern doorstep. Iran has been wallowing in an economic and political swamp for decades. A well-nigh endless series of footling governments has done little to help...
Most U.S. citizens still look on Latin America as a backward land of revolutions, strong men and cloak & dagger conspirators. In the July Foreign Affairs, a State Department planner who signs himself "Y,"* argues thoughtfully that surface appearances are misleading; beneath their often tempestuous politics, the Latin American nations are going forward toward orderly, democratic government. Writes...
Paternal & Fraternal. "The question whether the backward countries of Latin America were to be regarded as responsible adults or as irresponsible children was first answered by us in the early days of the 20th Century. We took it upon ourselves to exercise a paternalistic police power in the Caribbean. Theodore Roosevelt's 'corollary' to the Monroe Doctrine told the Europeans, in effect, that we would be responsible for keeping order among the children in our own yard. The assumption, not without validity at the time, was that these republics had not reached the stage of development...