Word: backslide
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Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills, a backslid free trader, shrewdly senses the rise of protectionist sentiment among politically potent forces. The bill, which Mills expects to report out by month's end, would impose mandatory quotas on imports of foreign shoes and synthetic and wool textiles. Furthermore, it would force President Nixon to continue curbing oil imports by a quota system, rather than replace the quotas with a less restrictive tariff. The oil deal was wrapped up in eight minutes. Even that might be only the beginning. An omnibus provision authorizes the President to put quotas...
...Sartre and Simone made far higher demands than traditional domestic fidelity. They faced the fact that from time to time, in order to fulfill themselves, they might have to live separately. Above all, their allegiance, unlike matrimony, was never to degenerate into mere duty-or habit. Sartre once almost backslid on this. Faced with their first temporary separation (he was offered a teaching job in Le Havre; she had one in Marseille), he asked her to marry him for real. But Simone was strong enough for both of them. She refused...
Long one of TV's remotest stars, Pixie Pundit David Brinkley confessed that he had finally become reconciled to autograph hounds. "Except," he backslid, "when I'm out somewhere with my children. I don't want them to get the idea their father is some kind of tinhorn celebrity-at least not until they're old enough to realize that this is an ephemeral, transitory, shallow and not very important kind of fame that can and will disappear even faster than it arrived...
...Soon the backslid heroine becomes a famous gypsy entertainer, travels through Europe from success to success and from sin (Gustavo Rojo) to sin (Dennis King). Crowd scene follows crowd scene: theaters, bullfights, battles. She finds her dragoon again at the side of the "Iron Duke" just before the Battle of Waterloo, which is thrown in for good measure. In the end, of course, she goes back to the convent, and at this point it becomes painfully apparent that the moviemakers intend, even at the risk of sacrilege, to have their unleavened bread and eat it too. But after more than...
...treatment: the heartbeat became regular, blood pressure dropped to 160/100, and the leg pain got better. The patient switched again-to primitivism. Dr. Bontzolakis was delighted. But two years later the man returned in worse shape than before, with blood pressure up again. What had happened? He had backslid through expressionism to abstractions, had quit his medicine, and was painting wilder canvases than ever...