Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...brass hovering in the background. He bolted from bed as if ejected from a smoking jet. His feet never touched the floor as he executed an incredible acrobatic loop off the mattress and landed upright in the the stiffest embrace I've ever seen−bent halfway backward. 'Hi there,' said General Page. 'Just dropped by to say hello.' The airman's eyes were now two fried eggs. 'Hi, sir,' he said through clenched teeth. All in all, it was a helluva way to be called from one's dreams...
...result, Peterson said that in examining the plan, Harvard's policy would be cautious. It's a step backward when you start giving out loans rather than scholarship. We may have to step backward but we should not applaud...
...wheels becomes stuck in a lunar rut. If the wheel cannot be worked free, the ground controllers can fire a small explosive charge, disconnecting it from the drive shaft and allowing it to spin freely. In fact, the vehicle can move either forward or backward with two wheels out of action on each side...
...choose such a backward time And such a strange land? If you'd come today you would have reached a whole nation. Israel in 4 B.C. had no mass communication...
Fauss (Michael Pollard), a goofy mechanical genius, is the otherwise backward son of a suffocatin' maw and a sufferin' paw. Halsy (Robert Redford) is a full-time motorcycle rider, ego-tripper and ladysmith. But the steatopygous girls who follow him are, as he admits, "gland cases" and "hurting whores." Between race-track rack-ups and sexual hang-ups, the film is crowded with subject-but barren of object. It is impossible to hide what never existed; nonetheless Director Sidney Furie seems to be attempting an existential comedy. Local color is dabbed in by the numbers. Maw (Lucille Benson...