Word: backwardness
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...boats were now but a few hundred yards apart. Suddenly Bertha rose to her feet, with a scornful gesture, laughing nervously; and then that devil raised his arm and struck her. She reeled backward, fell helplessly over the side; and then the whirling waters closed above her head...
...enough in my dream, tried to turn away from her. I could stir neither hand nor foot. I pray God I may never again experience that feeling of powerless, supernatural terror. She drew nearer and nearer; and I recognized the face of Bertha Carlin. Then suddenly she stopped, pointed backward; the hall disappeared, the broad sea was before me, gleaming under the moon, as I had seen it last...
...ease the Free-will and Somersault, and the Back Horizontal, both of which are very difficult. In the Giant Swing (forward), Mr. Keene excelled, and the judges were at first unable to decide as to their respective merits; but on Mr. Keene's inability to execute the Giant Swing (backward), which Mr. Freeland accomplished satisfactorily at his first attempt, the prize was given to Freeland by the judges...