Word: backlashed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recall, the TIME account (April 5) was one of those stories of people caught in the backlash...
Blons, a quiet village in Austria's picturesque Great Walser Valley, was only one of many corners of Europe caught in the backlash of a deceptively mild winter that had suddenly turned vicious. Cross-Channel shipping was brought to a dead stop for two days as winds, roaring in from the Atlantic, whipped the seas into a fury. Far to the south in Italy, gondolas lay at their moorings in Venice under coverlets of snow. Even in Algeria, the snowplows were busy on the streets of Constantine...
...Backlash. Near Wellington, Kans., a fisherman abandoned his catch after he cast his line from a railway bridge over a creek, short-circuited an automatic control system, turned every block signal red on 107 miles of track, halted 14 freight trains and three passenger expresses, stalled them all for two hours...