Word: backslide
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...Subjects in which graduates backslid most: mathematics, foreign literature, history...
Agonizing to the friends it has left is the Soviet's nimbleness in shifting ground. Having backslid on its vows not to aggress on little nations (like Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Rumania), and to "recognize and defend the right of the oppressed nations to a self-determination in the political sense of the word" (like Spain), last week Russia once again needed skid chains. The U. S. S. R. discarded its five-day, 35-hour work week, in its place substituted a six-day, 48-hour week. Purpose: to speed defense production. Once again a decree forbidding workers...
...major crops up to "parity prices." only one crop (at average farm prices), tobacco, is selling above parity. Corn, at 41? rice at 58?, cotton at .08?, all stand just above half. Wheat, at 52?, is less than half. For the first time in five years farm income has backslid-10%-to $7,625,000,000. Over Franklin Roosevelt's budgetary wails, Congress voted a $212,000,000 appropriation for direct parity payments plus the $500,000,000 earmarked for soil conservation payments; but in the election farm States elected many an anti-New Dealer...
...Week, Jim Grouch snarled "G'wan, go back to sleep. There must be some easier way to earn a living." He instructed his listeners: "Instead of saying nice things to your hostess when the cocktails are lousy, tell her they're lousy." When, last week, Jim Grouch backslid, tried to launch a Be Helpful Week, his listeners objected so strenuously that he cut the program short...
Myron's first backsliding occurred when he was transferred (following the first big shakeup, under Hoover, of the Indian Service bureaucracy) to a school attended by Apaches. When one day he saw an unrepentant backslider from the start getting the worst of it in a fight with Apache students. Myron jumped in, was both delighted and distressed to discover he liked righting. That summer he let his hair grow, found riding better fun than driving a car, gambling songs prettier than many a mission hymn, backslid in his thoughts about pretty 12-year-old Buckskin's daughter, began...