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...food, animals, colors, clothing and toys. To measure progress, Rivera, showing a drawing of a man, would say: "¿Esta es una madre?" Or sometimes he asked: "¿Servimos azúcar en los huevos?" (Shall we serve sugar on the eggs?). If anyone replied yes, Rivera would backtrack on the "lesson...
Martin started to backtrack, trying to design the simple radar that might have been developed in the early days if military money had not been so plentiful. He consulted continually with Collins (usually in a pub), and whenever he suggested adding another tube, Collins complained that he didn't want a cheaper radar, he wanted a really cheap one that would land planes effectively...
...Little Digging. Some jazz pedants think that Benny's old records may start a younger generation on a backtrack to swing. Benny himself is not so sure...
...halt because they had no permit. The citizens' committee stormed before the school board. At the first meeting the board would let in only two of the protesters at a time. Then, as out-of-town newspapers began to play up the controversy, the officials began to backtrack. School Superintendent Harry Edwards said that the six expelled pupils could come back...
Having, in his tractarian zeal for driving home the idea of human responsibility, made the Birlings look like a pack of Victorian villains, Playwright Priestley suddenly begins to backtrack. Perhaps, he suggests, the young girl-whom each Birling had known by a different name-was really a great many different girls. Or perhaps the Birlings' visitor (Thomas Mitchell), who certainly didn't act like a police inspector, wasn't one. Perhaps there had never even been a suicide. Perhaps. . . . In his last 20 minutes, Playwright Priestley has a high old time perhapsing. Unfortunately, he has been prosing...