Word: backward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...provide The Reporter's reporters with a plain or specific journalistic target, and the first issue showed it. Almost half of the 36-page issue was devoted to a leisurely, dull analysis of President Truman's program for developing the world's backward areas. The rest of the articles ranged from a talk with an Iowa farmer to an essay on the Adamses of Massachusetts. Future issues will also be devoted to one political or economic "symphonic theme," such as civil rights, cotton...
...diving is nothing short of superb. Vicki Draves is an extraordinary performer, and her husband Lyle is almost as good. But the finest dive of the evening is performed by someone I have never heard of, and whose name I cannot remember. It is a combination backward somersault--two and one half forward somersault--full twist plunge off a board which could not have been more than 12 feet above the pool...
...rugby week has its drawbacks. For one thing the teams must interrupt their revelries to compete just often enough to be permanently exhausted. For another, the coral sand on the rugby field is abrasive and causes painfully skinned knees when the players fall forward. They also fall backward...
...must shoulder what President Harry Truman called a "bold new program." Specific examples of what capitalist enterprise can do were given by Nelson Rockefeller, president of the International Basic Economy Corp., a business with the avowed purpose of raising living standards through the use of American know-how in backward areas. The audience sat fascinated as he told how the corporation saved Brazil $100 million a year by spraying coffee plantations with an insecticide, killing an African pest called broca. With obvious pride in American resourcefulness, he gleefully described how the updraft caused by the helicopter presses the chemical against...
Harold Stassen, pinch-hitting for President Truman, who was to have delivered the convocation's closing address, made an able, forthright speech in which he made a specific proposal for backward areas. Said he: "The Marshall Plan in Europe has been the most significant single right thing we have done since the end of the war. It is high time that we have a parallel MacArthur Plan in Asia...