Word: backwardation
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Unless his speech had a delayed-action detonator, Harry Truman might soon have to decide where and how far to make his first backward step...
...everyone had expected, the Senate disregarded all this argument, voted for the men Harry Truman had appointed. If the President was leaning over backward to avoid Woodrow Wilson's great mistake-turning a cold shoulder to U.S. politicians during the peacemaking-the Senate was more than willing to copy the stance. But the debate had made it plain that a knot of young progressives would not stay quiet if they thought the success of world politics was being sacrificed to politics at home...
...allowing other men the chance to save face when he opposed them. He could be convinced about bringing the fleet back, he said. But only, he added, "if I can be given a good statement which will convince the American people and the Japanese that ... we are not stepping backward." The Admiral asked a blunt question: "Are we going to enter the war?" "Not," said the President calmly, "if the Japs attack Thailand [Siam], the Kra Isthmus or the Dutch East Indies...
...Milton Waldman's book is also a good deal more than a studious appraisal of the Queen's relations with her first great favorite. Waldman sees in Robert Dudley's rise to power a symbol of Elizabethan England's rise from "a somewhat backward island" to a world power...
...Lamarr, a mythical European princess briefly visiting a hotel on Manhattan's Central Park South. Infatuated, he no longer has time or heart to spare for June Allyson, a little cripple who loves him. No objet d'art in the royal suite is insurable against his awed backward stumblings and heel-clackings...