Word: backward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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German F, by contrast, leans over backward to avoid touching on present-day Germany. It sticks closely to the cultural and political history of Germany in the "good old days" of the minnesingers, Albrecht Durer, Frederick the Great, and perhaps Bismarck. (The German Club does the same thing, of course...
...Looking backward before looking forward, FORUM found World War I's building picture something less than pretty. Declaration of war found the military departments unprepared. The 32 great cantonments for U. S. soldiers and additions to regular Army barracks had to be wastefully rushed (cost: $273,000,000); the 16 used for drafted men cost twice what they should have. There were bottlenecks in labor and lumber, a shortage of competent foremen, towering bills for overtime. Toward the end, workers were imported from Puerto Rico and the West Indies. Result of all the rush was a set of unsightly...
...sell a dozen packages of razor blades. The American in a Latin country tends to insulate himself from contact with the people of the country; the social customs seem to him absurd, and he makes little effort to understand them. He is not interested, and usually is not backward about showing his disinterest. Germans perhaps feel the same way, but if they do they are quite generally able to hide it. They marry Latins relatively more frequently than is the case with us, and are careful to choose a girl of good family. The sum and substance of all this...
...reject that thought. We say that we are the future. We say that the direction in which they would lead us is backward, not forward, backward to the bondage of the Pharaohs, backward to the slavery of the Middle Ages...
Before embarking on a political course which may yet bring war with the U. S., Japan took one last look backward. Foreign Office spokesmen spoke regretfully of U. S. hostility to Japanese aims, of continued pressure culminating in last week's embargo of scrap iron. Japan is still not abandoning hope of improving relations with the U. S., said the Foreign Office's Spokesman No. 1, slightly cockeyed, definitely popeyed, swart, squat Ya-kichiro Suma...