Word: backwardly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will have, one expert may overstate a judgment because he knows that a jury's finding of insanity will start proceedings to commit the offender to a mental institution; another may be influenced by the thought that more rehabilitation will be possible in an enlightened prison than a backward asylum...
...Buchanan, Lincoln's predecessor, was the formalist who administered but did not lead the country. Lincoln was the heroic leader whose stewardship was passionate, argumentative and highly political. Grover Cleveland was a mixture of the two, not moving forward at a rapid rate, but not stepping very far backward either, expending just enough energy, in Hyman's words, "to maintain the existing kinetic equilibrium...
Unceremoniously Expelled. The absurdities began two years ago, when Britain decided to create five Associated States out of its smaller Caribbean islands in an attempt to aid their move toward self-rule. In Anguilla's case, planners forgot the traditional hostility between the natives of backward Anguilla and the people of St. Kitts, which was made the dominant partner in the Archipelago. The association lasted only three months, and in May 1967 the Anguillians expelled the 15-man St. Kitts-directed police force and demanded direct links with Britain. While London dithered, an Anguillian referendum, by a vote...
...search for a real America behind the murk, the insouciance, and the chauvinism of the American mind. Indeed, an intense facing up to facts about this continent and its history is far more instructive, especially about the future of our world, than a facing backward to Europe, still a center of ferment and ideas, but no longer the depository of sane leadership...
...clues to human destiny. The assumption was only natural. The influences of the sun on the earth and the moon on the seas were obvious, and it was easy to suppose that those other bright deities, the planets?which seemed to be advancing, receding, moving up and down and backward among the fixed stars?should be concerned with wars and governments and the destinies of men on earth...