Word: backward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...puff of smoke. An instant later came hell. The ground erupted like a volcano. A halo of yellow flame flared from the spot. Even from a mile away it was blinding. Black smoke, blasted wood, little trees poured upward for a hundred feet, like a Niagara running backward...
...said Idealist Nehru, "is the total inability of the English-speaking peoples to think of the new world-situation in terms of realism-realism being more than military realism. It is political, psychological, economic realism. . . . Their concept of us is that of a mass people fallen low, a backward people who must be lifted out from the depths by good works...
...conscious, as grave, as ordered and educated as those of Edward Gray. No agency existed in the hot midsummer of 1914 to span the teeming continent of Europe to take the pulse of the people who were to be the casualties, the heroes, the victims-or the survivors. No backward look by the autobiographers, the novelists, the poets, could bring clearly into view the first impact of war upon the sufferers...
...Freedom from want [is] freedom from mass unemployment, plus freedom from penury for those unable to work. We state these things as 'rights'-not because the world owes any man a living, but because unless man succeeds in filling these primary needs, his only development is backward and downward, his only growth malignant, and his last resource...
...Shaga Nazad. As evidence of the situation's seriousness, however, Red Star? the Army's newspaper, lengthened its slogan from "Not one step backward" (Ni shaga nazad) to "Not one step backward without order of commanders." In a moment "pregnant with great danger for our country," Red Star appealed to southern troops to maintain iron discipline from the top commanders to the lowest ranks...