Word: backwardly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Educational television will guarantee that all the world's culture will be available to all the world. The receiving dishes pointing at the sky will be able to collect the most sophisticated technical information for the most backward countries...
...first areas of the New World to be colonized, Brazil's Northeast reigned as sugar king for 200 years until Caribbean producers dethroned it in the 18th century. Then its markets dried up, and the land went backward, ignored by the rest of the nation. In this "other" Brazil, a bare, beaten region more than twice the size of Texas, 26 million Brazilians live in misery, almost 80% of them illiterate, disease and hunger holding the average life span to an appalling 35 years. Most nordestinos wring a grudging subsistence from the land, which is alternately scorched by drought...
Another obstacle is the new nations' obsession to get rid of all things associated with colonialism, including democratic customs. One ready substitute is socialism-or the vague authoritarian forms that many backward countries take to be socialism-for it offers a nice, revolutionary, anticolonial posture, and more or less handy blueprints for a centralized economy...
...economics. Developing nations often argue that what really matters to them is not democracy but modernization. Yet democracy has a strong economic content; it remains, despite Western moves toward collectivism in recent decades, a competitive society. The Communists claim that only some form of economic regimentation can help backward nations close the gap of centuries. The claim is almost demonstrably false, as is suggested by the Russians' own recent experiments with freer enterprise. Says Sociology Professor Edward Shils of Chicago University and Cambridge: "I have never seen any convincing evidence that one-party government is necessary for economic progress...
...space suit, an astronaut will be a man beset by problems. A brief pulse of power from a backpack rocket will start him moving in any direction he desires, but it will take another carefully calculated pulse to stop him, still others to move him up, down, backward or into a turn. How will he handle the continuous need to control his versatile little rocket without letting that one job keep him too busy for other useful work...