Word: backwardly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...continues because of aid from China or Russia, even when the facts clearly demonstrate that the aid is marginal. The true impetus of these wars stems from the fact that the Communists have identified themselves with the protests against the proto-feudal governments that still hold power in many backward countries. The Communists support the reform movements: they do not actually create them. On principle, the U.S. only opposes the Communists. In fact, the U.S. finds itself fighting reform because the Communists are urging it. Almost as necessarily, the State Department turns to the old overlords for support. True toughmindedness...
Forward & Backward. Aboard Stormvogel, everything was serene. Radio reports had her well in the lead with only 300 miles to Rio; another 48 hours should see her across the finish line. Then Stormvogel hit a calm. "There were no winds at all during the day," said Helmsman Miles, "and at night the northeaster blew up to 25 or 30 knots. Then there was that current, coming right at us. Two of my fixes actually showed we were going backward...
Ambitious Voyage. For 50 hours, Ranger VIII cruised through space, its speed gradually slowing under the backward pull of the earth's gravitation. Then it felt the forward pull of the moon's gravitation and began to gain speed. As the spacecraft curved into its final dive, it swept across the face of the moon at a lower altitude than its predecessor. In 23 minutes it sent back 7,000 pictures, nearly twice the number returned by Ranger VII, over a five-minute longer span...
...head. Government succumb to rebellions if they are weak and unpopular. If we are concerned that Thailand, Malaysia etc., will fall to the Communists, we should attempt to make them strong, stable countries by offering large-scale economic aid and encouraging political reform. Our futile attempts to prop up backward governments in South Vietnam will not save governments in Southeast Asia, if they too are backward...
...Corps has something to do with spot benefits in a few isolated places, whether in sanitizing drinking water or building culverts its work has and can have, very little to do with the fundamental investments, reorganizations and reforms upon which the true and long-term economic development of backward countries depends...