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Word: backward (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which have caused gasps at aerial shows for nearly 30 years. At exactly 9:55 a.m. the four Thunderbird pilots went into a "line-abreast loop," a maneuver in which they roar along, wingtip to wingtip, about 100 ft. off the ground, zoom up to 2,500 ft., loop backward into a dive at 400 m.p.h., then pull out when they get back to 100 ft. This time they did not pull out. One jet hit the ground and the other three, locked into their now fatal formation, followed within a tenth of a second. They exploded in a ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crashing in Formation | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

...Novelist Norman Mailer. Not a cough sounded as Abbott, 37, gave some grisly details of the aftermath of the 5 a.m. stabbing outside the Bini-Bon restaurant where Adan had worked. Adan, Abbott related, "said, 'You didn't have to kill me.' He started going backward. From his face he looked like he was dead ... he kept walking backward on Fifth [Street]. I've never seen anyone dead walk that far." Then, said Abbott, Adan fell to the sidewalk and spilled "a river of blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He Was Dead: Jack Henry Abbott On Trial For Murdering Richard Adan | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

...stand Abbott conceded that the lethal knife was his; indeed, he showed the jury how he had concealed it in the waistband of his jeans. He still insisted that he thought he saw Adan pull a knife and lunged self-protectively-but added that as Adan staggered backward after the stabbing, "that's when I saw there was nothing in his hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He Was Dead: Jack Henry Abbott On Trial For Murdering Richard Adan | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

...entitles credence, yet in the next hour nobody on the program even mentioned, let alone discussed his denial. Perhaps it was Gaddafi's appearance that was so scary, as he huddled, dressed in collarless brown shirt and engulfed in a blue cape. As his head bobbed upward and backward, his eyes rolling up to the heavens, he looked like a Monty Python imitation of an Arab weirdo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch: Killer Squads, Liars and Mad Dogs | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

...since 1948. Lazarus began with a kiddy furniture store in Washington, D.C., that he called National Baby Shop. He changed the name to Children's Super-mart in 1954, and reversed the three Rs on the sign and company stationery to attract attention. Says he: "We used the backward R because it made the name distinctive. Everybody remembered it." Customers used to come into the store regularly and tell the manager that letters on the sign out front were backward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toys for Tots | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

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