Word: backwardation
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...firmly-full lips smiled with nervous sadness over strange teeth, and only the chin was allowed to rest a little from the forward-moving pace of his vitality. It afforded a slight pause in the breathless race to take in the rest. The next minute you realized that its backward movement was controlled with a fierceness that could defeat a Napoleon...
...pessimist is Bishop Rowe. "Why it's a picnic, that's what it is, a picnic, compared to the way I used to cover Alaska," said he cheerily last week. Nor is he a backward looker. "The church is more alive and alert today," he observes. "There is an enthusiasm today that did not exist before. . . . The church has a larger world vision...
...great Wagnerian soprano down to second-grade cabaret girls. And servant girls-between 1933 and 1939 some 20,000 of them went to Holland and 14,000 to England-and the famous Nazi "tourists." All over the world the Department placed its agents in radio stations; in the more backward countries, Germans installed and operated transmitters for virtually nothing. They held the planet in a net as instantaneous as light...
...Backward: Mutual Broadcasting System's grave Analyst Raymond Gram Swing, in an Armistice Day homily at the sick world's bedside, recalled a technical point: "It is not historically true that the issue [of accepting responsibility for world peace] ever was presented to the American nation and that the responsibility was rejected. Twenty years ago Americans through the two major parties were committed either to the League or to a society of nations. . . . Then President Harding, after his election, said that the vote had been a plebiscite against joining...
...with a freak football formation. On the offense, in Solem's Y formation, the center, instead of bending over and "viewing his mates from an upside-down position," faces his own backfield. Instead of reaching forward to put his hands on the ball, he reaches backward between his legs...