Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regard to Mrs. C. W. Jackson's letter [saying] that "the Democrats are looking backward on the events of the past, the Republicans are looking forward on the events of the future" [TIME...
...four days dusty, backward Asuncion looked like the set for a high-budget Warner Brothers' production. Under the palms, military attaches in fancy uniforms and foreign ambassadors wearing bright-hued sashes danced Paraguayan polkas with the dark-eyed daughters of Asuncion society. Workers in pink shirts and red bandannas paraded under the unseasonably hot winter sun. The troops showed off their best uniforms and equipment, while the new President, standing in an open car, dashed about the capital with a bodyguard...
...today the "sweet madness" of that era, as Editor Hodapp calls it, may seem neither very sweet nor so terribly mad, still it is possible that many middle-aged readers will find in this book's backward glance a nostalgic moment-less, perhaps, for the actual quality of life in the '20s than for the kind of easy illusions it was then possible to cultivate...
...eyes were fixed on the agent, and especially on the revolver which he carried in an open holster on his belt. As the agent leaned forward to write, Fox grabbed the pistol, got the end under his chin and pulled the trigger. The old bank robber toppled backward, dead...
...illustration of what he called the "Cyclone Look," Dior showed an evening gown that had nearly a score of stiffened folds projected backward, making it look as if the wearer were carrying a huge semicircular balloon on her stern. In his "Winged Line," beruffled evening dresses were boned, wired, lined and otherwise stiffened to flare out as much as two feet in all directions, preventing their wearers from sitting down, dancing within arm's reach of a partner, or standing...