Word: backward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democrats theme even harder the next day in a Richmond speech supporting the Senate candidacy of Virginia Congressman Paul Trible. The election, he said, posed a choice of "whether we will continue our sure and steady course to put America back on track or whether we will slide backward into another economic binge like the one which left us with today's pounding national hangover...
...friend suggested that he shave off his beard and call himself Noel Rehsielf, which is his name spelled backward. But Leon Fleisher said he would go on, which is no spelled backward. To demonstrate to the world that, after 17 years, he could once again range up and down a piano keyboard with both hands, he chose the most visible occasion he could find: the inauguration last week of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's $23 million Joseph Meyerhoff Hall...
...Throughout a performance of Lohengrin, two women in the audience held hands and caressed one another while onstage the pure knight sang of his love for the chaste Elsa. At the climax of Tristan und Isolde, one bejeweled lady was so overcome by the intoxicating music that she pitched backward into the laps of the unflappable listeners behind her. Richard Wagner, who caused all the excitement, rested peacefully in his grave behind his villa Wahnfried, buried, in the phrase of one astonished British tourist, "in the backyard, sir, like a dog." Bayreuth has seen everything...
...single table, you sit in the middle, the Queen and I on one side and Nancy and Prince Philip on the other. When the toasts are over, the two of us exit down that table. The footmen pull the chairs back, and the Lord Chamberlain precedes us walking backward. I suddenly saw this tiny figure beside me walking along waving her hand. She's steering him. She said to me, 'You know, we don't get those chairs even, and he could fall over one and hurt himself...
Dickson's words have not only definitions but shapes and structures and quirky personalities. Facetiously, he reminds us, is one of the few words in which all the vowels appear in the proper sequence; duoliteral is one of the even fewer in which they all appear backward. Kinnikinnik, he reports, is not only an Indian smoking mixture of bark and leaves but the longest palindrome among the 450,000 entries in Webster's Third New International Dictionary. Cuspidor is the word that James Joyce declared to be the most beautiful in the entire language...