Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...floor, he really threw her; Jeritza had insisted on realism. Once on the floor, she sang the famous aria "Vissi d'arte" lying prone as usual.* When Scarpia lifted her to her feet, she pushed him away so hard that the sofa he fell into almost went over backward. In the third act, weeping over the dead Cavaradossi, she managed real tears...
...Eugene Holman, president of Standard Oil Co. of N.J. (March 24, 1947), which explained the corporation's $300 million expansion into Middle Eastern oil as an attempt not only to make money but at the same time to convey the "tangible benefits of free enter prise" to a backward land. Almost two years later the U.S.'s Point Four plan for world recovery was launched to encourage just such tangible benefits as this...
Tucked in with EGA, the President's Point Four program, to give technical aid to backward areas and encourage U.S. private investments abroad, squeaked through (37-36) to become duly authorized for the first time by Congress. The Senate voted the $45 million Harry Truman asked for; since the House authorized only $25 million, the difference will have to be fought out in conference...
...Announcer Lapin has been saying that "radio, which is the great discovery of a Russian genius, the mighty weapon of culture and progress, has been transformed in imperialist America into a hotbed of vulgarity and ignorance, into a tool of profitmaking, slander and deceit . . . It is poisoning the politically backward and uncultured people with the virus of chauvinism and militarism...
Crippled, propped, cushioned and controlled though it is, the British economy is still the second most productive industrial machine in the Western world. It is as superior to the wrecked or backward economies of France and Germany as ours is to it ... Britain's economy is still predominantly private, autonomous and unpredictable, the sum of many individual business decisions just...