Word: backwardly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...historic and geographic ties to the Old Confederacy; though it is more Western in the look of the land and its yield, the state has never embraced the West's expansionist, assimilative outlook. Instead, in the eyes of the world it seemed aimlessly insular, obdurately independent-and comically backward. As then-Governor Charles Brough boasted 50 years ago: "You could build a wall around the state of Arkansas and its people would be self-sufficient...
...international affairs. Its industrial output jumped by more than 7% in the year that ended last June, and both this year and next year its gross national product is expected to increase 5.5%, highest real growth rate in the Common Market. Yet under the surface glitter, France has a backward, underdeveloped economy-a fact that the De Gaulle government has recently owned up to and started to do something about...
Academic freedom, usually a university's strength becomes a special problem in the area of drug research, Farnsworth noted. "We bend over backward to make sure that individual privacy is respected, but the question remains how tolerant the university and its doctors should...
...saleable personality. He never even wrote the kind of novels in which some character would turn up again and aeain and enable the reader to say, "There he goes," as in the case of a Lieut. Henry, a Jake Barnes or a Robert Jordan, who shed a romantic backward luster on the author...
Lord Randolph, a genial wit to his public, was pretty much an ogre to his son. He believed that he had been cursed with a backward boy and treated Winston like a delinquent dunderhead. He hardly condescended to correspond directly with his son, and communicated his bleak Olympian ultimatums on Winston's tardiness, low school marks and other failures, through Lady Randolph. He did not even let little Winny know that he himself had gone to Eton (as, explains Etonian Randolph, had six generations of Churchills), and contemptuously shoved his unsatisfactory son into Harrow...