Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...land which has been slumbering since Nebuchadnezzar. Kings, sheiks and shahs have become the new tycoons-some of the world's richest men in some of the world's poorest countries. A civilization of DC-6s, Parker "513" and air-conditioned trailers has descended on proud, backward peoples...
...been getting a measly royalty of 10^ a barrel-and offered him a 50-50 split of profits, before taxes. This year, facing the pleasant prospect of a return of more than $200 million, the Sheik also faces a problem: how to spend it on his tiny, backward kingdom without creating inflation...
...Fence Leaning over backward to be neutral between the free world and Communism, the moppet Republic of Indonesia last week leaned so far that it fell on its head. Premier Sukiman's ten-month-old coalition cabinet resigned. Reason: in accepting $8,000,000 Mutual Security Aid from the U.S. (TIME, Feb. 25), the government had to formally declare itself on the West's side, a declaration which horrified the Indonesian Parliament...
Button is the only skater in the world who can execute the leap, which involves taking off on one skate going backward and doing three body revolutions before landing on the same skate, again going backward...
Aubrey Menen is a half-Irish, half-Hindu satirist who likes nothing better than to undo the mental shoelaces of the English. In The Prevalence of Witches, he spoofed the pukka sahib set in India. In The Backward Bride, he showed a good Sicilian lad in the process of being poisoned by the toxic doctrines of an Oxford freethinker. In his latest novel, Author Menen grafts his wit on another culture, lets his English hero bloom like a quirky Renaissance prince...