Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like reading of a favorite old relative who had died. My father, a doctor, began practicing medicine there in the '20s. A schoolteacher we knew there, rumored to have given aid and comfort to an Internal Revenue agent, went out one morning with his daughter; he sent her back to the house for their lunches, stepped on the starter of their car, and was blown all over Harlan County by the dynamite explosion...
...Abilene, Texas, police saw a car being driven backwards several blocks, stopped three Hardin-Simmons University coeds who said they had borrowed a boy friend's car, had driven it much farther than they had planned to. were now driving it in reverse to back some of the mileage off the speedometer...
Lugrolling. In Freehold, N.J., a headline in the Transcript announced: G.O.P. CLUBS BACK CROOK FOR SHERIFF...
Baby Sitter. In Kansas City, Mo., Harry Rosenthal pulled into a parking lot in his tiny foreign car (a B.M.W. Isetta with its only door across the front), turned the car over to an attendant, came back several hours later to find the man-who had no idea how to put it in reverse-still sitting in the car, its front end snug against the parking-lot wall...
...Macmillan, pale but still game, stopped back in London from his visit to Bonn, some of his more enthusiastic admirers were hailing his journeys as the diplomatic triumph of the age. SUPERMAC! HE DOES IT AGAIN ! headlined London's Daily Sketch. Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail-which, like most British papers, finds the West Germans too unbending toward Russia-had wondrous news to impart. In Bonn, confided the Daily Mail, Macmillan "completely won over Dr. Adenauer, to a system of step-by-step disarmament in Central Europe...