Word: backward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surplus will be far greater than ever within a few years after this war comes to an end. We can be decently human and really hardheaded if we exchange our post-war surplus for goods, for peace and for improving the standards of living of so-called backward peoples. We can get more for our surplus production in this way than by any high-tariff, penny-pinching, isolationist policies which hide under the cloak of 100% Americanism...
Peter Marsh Stanford is no ordinary naval expert. He has been a seadog since the age of two, knows naval history backward and forward, is no mean amateur expert. He has not yet been on a ship bigger than a destroyer, but he knows the sea, "which is more important." A third-year student at Manhattan's progressive Lincoln School, he will be 16 years old come January...
...Rome radio admitted the retreat of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's German and Italian troops in North Africa, but tried to explain that in fluid desert warfare the Rommel tactic was to lead the British on. A popular quip became: "A clock moves forward saying tictac; Rommel moves backward saying...
...pitchfork. From the southern force, moving along the Stalingrad-Novorossiisk railway, prongs also curved off. One jabbed across the Don, severed the Stalingrad-Rostov railway, cut back east to squeeze Axis troops against Stalingrad. In Stalingrad itself the 13th Division began to bend the stubborn German head backward...
Drang nach Osten. During last winter's campaign thousands of German soldiers were slain as they edged backward before a battering Russian offense. But few were captured. It was a different story last week...