Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, who has already held the post of federal Prime Minister under the British crown for two years. In his speeches the Sardauna cast gibes at Zik ("an unbelieving Ibo"), but his major aim was to defeat his bitterest enemy, Awolowo, who called the Northern ruler a backward feudalist...
...very hard to point in a given direction," says Moore. "It showed that Newton's action and reaction theories are right. Everything we did produced an opposite reaction. It was like standing on an icy pond trying to push a car. All we did was push ourselves backward...
...Blows (Zenith International). A small boy stands at the bottom of a giant tin can, the centrifuge in an amusement park. As the can begins to spin, the centrifugal force moves him to the outer walls. Faster and faster it goes. Soon the boy can move neither backward nor forward; he is the prisoner of the machine. Searching for freedom, he scrambles along the walls upside down. The machine, he discovers, has repealed the natural law that keeps his feet on the ground. It has robbed him of all relationship to the true center of things...
...evil may be foisted on the public." Denounced by the U.S. Catholic hierarchy was "a systematic, concerted effort" to build support for the use of U.S. public funds "in promoting artificial birth prevention for economically underdeveloped countries." The church leaders urged instead greater scientific efforts to feed and uplift backward peoples. U.S. Catholics, declared the bishops, "believe that the promotion of artificial birth prevention is a morally, humanly, psychologically and politically disastrous approach to the population problem." Catholics, they continued, "will not support any public assistance, either at home or abroad, to promote artificial birth prevention, abortion or sterilization whether...
...since over, Anderson last month took the dust-stirring step of announcing that henceforth dollars lent to underdeveloped countries by the U.S.'s own Development Loan Fund (outgo: about $550 million a year) must be spent in the U.S. Protests rang out that Anderson was dragging the U.S. backward with a protectionist "Buy American" program (TIME, Nov. 9). But Anderson's essential purpose was to force Western Europe and Japan into providing loans to finance their own exports to underdeveloped countries. He would be happy to see Britain and West Germany set up their own development loan funds...