Word: backwardation
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...forces . . . will alone be responsible for the evils which may be visited upon mankind . . ." Swiveling his great bulk toward Vishinsky, Bevin cried: "If the Soviet representative had any feeling for the simple people of Europe or the world, if he were animated by anything but out-of-date, backward, unscientific doctrine, he would be the first to applaud the great, unselfish contribution of the United States to world recovery...
...Television was also plunging backward in time. Televiewers of CBS' Film Theater of the Air are currently startled by the sudden insertion of a 60-second commercial. After a hasty, soap-opera-type synopsis of previous action, the film resumes. Jerry Danzig, CBS associate director of programs, explained this reversion to the old nickelodeon technique: "A sponsor won't buy a picture and wait an hour for sponsor identification." He added, ominously: "We're establishing a precedent...
...regard to Mrs. C. W. Jackson's letter [saying] that "the Democrats are looking backward on the events of the past, the Republicans are looking forward on the events of the future" [TIME...
...four days dusty, backward Asuncion looked like the set for a high-budget Warner Brothers' production. Under the palms, military attaches in fancy uniforms and foreign ambassadors wearing bright-hued sashes danced Paraguayan polkas with the dark-eyed daughters of Asuncion society. Workers in pink shirts and red bandannas paraded under the unseasonably hot winter sun. The troops showed off their best uniforms and equipment, while the new President, standing in an open car, dashed about the capital with a bodyguard...
...today the "sweet madness" of that era, as Editor Hodapp calls it, may seem neither very sweet nor so terribly mad, still it is possible that many middle-aged readers will find in this book's backward glance a nostalgic moment-less, perhaps, for the actual quality of life in the '20s than for the kind of easy illusions it was then possible to cultivate...