Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seventeen thousand University of Kentucky students and Lexington townspeople interrupted him time and time again with short, hard bursts of applause as he belted away at "the opposition." Wherever and however he has served his country, he said, he has never found the choice between "going forward or going backward" difficult. Yet, in 1956, "a lot of politicians" are doing their best to make such a choice look "extremely hard." Then, scornfully, he wondered if such action could be attributed to "people who suffer from living in a world of words and phrases for so long that they...
...develop Asia more fully, rostow proposed a three-point program which included assisting the more backward countries, such as Indonesia and South Vietnam, to reach the point where an industrial revolution would be possible, throwing our full weight behind revolutions in India and Burma...
...broken the standard three-year cycle for complete body changes, spent $209 million on a completely revamped car after only two years. Most exciting innovation: the industry's first production retractable hardtop (TIME, July 16), which Ford will introduce "early next year." Operating electrically, the top rides backward into the luggage compartment, transforming the hardtop into a convertible in 55 seconds...
...climbing curve has progressed a little beyond the vertical. When the bomb leaves the airplane, it rises in an almost vertical trajectory. It is not quite vertical, however. To compensate for the horizontal distance that the airplane covered after it passed over the target, the bomb falls slightly backward, toward the direction from which the airplane came. When it explodes, the airplane is well out of danger...
...Shining Example. By the early 1950s, Belgrave's success in Bahrein had made him one of the most influential and respected men in the Middle East and Bahrein a shining example of what Western techniques and money could do for backward nations. In gratitude for Belgrave's achievements, Queen Elizabeth knighted him in 1952. Sheik Hamed's son and successor, Sulman bin Hamed al Khalifah, told a visitor: "We consider Mr. Belgrave to be not an Englishman but a Bahreini. He is my hand...