Word: backwards
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...stories of train campaigning will grow with each retelling. A few political veterans recall Tom Dewey's blurting into an open mike when his train lurched backward that he must have "a lunatic engineer." The New York Times's Scotty Reston ended his account of that particular incident with this line: "And then the train took off with a jerk...
...market share; 1 American household in 5 owns a PlayStation. The next-generation PlayStation 2 sold 980,000 units in Japan in record time; a rock-star-style arrival in the U.S. is scheduled for this fall. Sony's new machine also has the advantage of being backward-compatible, meaning you don't need to throw out all your old PlayStation games...
Given the multitude of very good reasons to dislike Buchanan, this should not have been the case. We all know that Buchanan is, shall we say, right of center. He is opposed to gay rights, has rather backward opinions regarding the place of women, and he seems to harbor a bit of a xenophobic streak. There is also ample evidence in his remarks about the Holocaust and Israel to suggest that he isn't exactly a friend of the Jews...
...Visiting Jamaica, the man who would be King became the toast of Kingston as he toured the blighted neighborhood of Trench Town and met with Bob Marley's widow Rita. The prince was anointed with a crown of dreadlocks fastened to a Rastafarian cap, which he donned briefly, and backward, before doffing it because of the heat. Rita Marley said had her husband been there, he would have "burn[ed] a spliff--a big, big spliff...
...things from a distance, the only close-up testimony comes from the cops. Officer Carroll's account would be pivotal to the court case. "The way he was peering up and down the block," said Carroll from the witness stand, had made the police suspicious of Diallo. "He stepped backward, back into the vestibule as we were approaching, like he didn't want to be seen...And I'm trying to figure out what's going on. You know--what's this guy up to?...I was getting a little leery, from the training, of my past experience of arrests...