Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made tremendous efforts in helping to save the world from aggressive tyranny, and in building up at her own expense destroyed or backward countries. How tragic it is that the gratitude of the free world, which should flow to the U.S. in consequence, is being weakened by the apparent failure of U.S. trade policy to admit that in the arithmetic of international trade two and two make four...
TOWN HALL TONIGHT, by Harlowe Randall Hoyt (292 pp.; Prentice-Hall; $7.50), is a somewhat casual and bluntly nostalgic backward look at the small-town theater of the '80s and '905, when Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Old Homestead were sure to extract their quota of tears. The illustrations are of appropriate corniness...
...government fears that the majority of those nations admitted in the "package deal" would be willing to vote to seat Communist China, and thus promote the "two China" sentiment which is growing so rapidly in Washington and at the UN. Every step forward for Communist China is a step backward, economically and politically, for the Nationalists. The veto is a calculated risk to dynamite acceptance of Red China by the world body...
...Credo," responded Publius. "I believe that my salvation comes from Jesus the Christ, Who was crucified under Pontius Pilate. With Him I die that with Him I may have Eternal Life." Then he felt strong arms supporting him as he let himself fall backward into the pool, and heard Marcus' voice in his ear-"I baptize you in the Name of the Lord Jesus"-as the cold water closed over...
...begin to understand the intelligent Mississippian's dislike of immediate integration (not one of the five gubernatorial candidates showed any compromise on this issue in last summer's election primary), one starts with the fact that in this state the Negro is both plentiful and terribly backward, and is thus both a political and social problem. It does no good to blame backwardness on Segregation over the years; this discrimination may be the cause, but its recognition does not wipe out the backwardness...