Word: backwardation
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...keeping with its policy of trying to boost backward Bunnies up to Dean's List, WLP will attempt to meet the distraction of the football game with Army tomorrow afternoon by offering more classical music. However, the powers that be in this newest radio station are conceding that Saturday night is not the time to study with the aid of the musical muse, and are going off the air at 5 o'clock...
Like many another Irish leader, Cardinal MacRory has leaned so far backward in his effort to be neutral that his head sometimes seems to be in the Third Reich. In 1938 he ordered public prayer "for Christians in Germany who . . . are being subjected to a most dangerous persecution," but since the war's outbreak he has reserved his most vigorous denunciations for the Allies...
...puff of smoke. An instant later came hell. The ground erupted like a volcano. A halo of yellow flame flared from the spot. Even from a mile away it was blinding. Black smoke, blasted wood, little trees poured upward for a hundred feet, like a Niagara running backward...
...said Idealist Nehru, "is the total inability of the English-speaking peoples to think of the new world-situation in terms of realism-realism being more than military realism. It is political, psychological, economic realism. . . . Their concept of us is that of a mass people fallen low, a backward people who must be lifted out from the depths by good works...
...conscious, as grave, as ordered and educated as those of Edward Gray. No agency existed in the hot midsummer of 1914 to span the teeming continent of Europe to take the pulse of the people who were to be the casualties, the heroes, the victims-or the survivors. No backward look by the autobiographers, the novelists, the poets, could bring clearly into view the first impact of war upon the sufferers...