Word: backward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with its enrollment of 14 students. He taught every thing from Latin to math, coached athletics and served as town librarian on the side. The town soon learned that there was something different about the kindly young schoolmaster in the somber black suit. Fractious kids jumped to obey him; backward boys seemed to brighten. Even old Deacon Greenough was won over. He started coming over to dinner every Sunday night, bringing free bottles of Green-ough's Horseradish with...
...nonexplosive kerosene instead of high-octane gas. Unlike turbojets, they do not have to fly at extremely high speeds to operate efficiently. At the speeds practical for present-day airliners (300-plus m.p.h.), the jet's high velocity blast wastes much of its energy in merely pushing air backward...
...Springfield goals were scored by an attackman, Dutch Garber. The best play of the game was a scoring shot by Bob Lange backward over his head. Both Hans Estin and Will Davis were cheated when shots of theirs bounced off the goal pipes...
...public, the writing career of Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre has unreeled itself both forward and backward in the past five years. His latest plays (or what is left of them after translation) have been produced in Manhattan, while publishers have busied themselves resurrecting his prewar fiction. His second book, The Wall, a volume of short stories first published in France in 1939, was brought out in the U.S. last year (TIME, Dec. 27). It is now followed by his first and most famous novel, Nausea, a book that made a splash among Paris intellectuals in 1938. Sartre's recent...
...pros is: "This won't hurt a bit... Ouch!" He has a loose swing, hits a long straight ball, steadies down under pressure like a real pro, works well on the greens with his unorthodox putter (a gooseneck with the blade extending forward from the shaft instead of backward...