Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most Hated & Adored. When Gladstone's enemies asked, as they frequently did, why God was always a Liberal, never a Tory, Gladstone patiently explained that God was choosy about whom He backed, and often refused to reveal Himself to dumb or backward persons. But perhaps God voted Liberal as often as He did because He realized that no politician, of any age, in any country, had struggled so vigorously as Gladstone to practice what He preached...
...would respectfully like to remind Mr. Owen J. Stubbs [TIME Letters, Nov. 15] that ... in Africa, the ancestors of the "backward and unambitious race" were manufacturing iron while their contemporaries in Europe still were dabbling with bronze . . . and that if Africa is a dark continent, it was the "Christian guardians" who plunged it into darkness. Those "guardians" [who] destroyed a fine young civilization by the wholesale kidnaping of its members for the slave trade...
...most captive audience he ever mystified, Harlow Shapley slowly explained to the pensive Congressmen that even small rocks contain tremendous explosive energy. Then Shapley suddenly announced that he had actual evidence, and quickly pushed a black and white stone onto the table bordered by his listeners. Every Congressman bolted backward as the guards unbolstered their revolvers. Several minutes passed before the flustered Congressmen heard the advice of a beamed Shapley for wording atomic energy legislation...
France strikes the visitor as the richest land in Europe-and potentially it is. French industry, though backward, unadventuresome and cartelized, is sharing in Europe's boom: steel production is soaring (to almost 11 million tons this year), and the output of French cars is close to half a million a year. France's trading deficit with the rest of the world is still chronic, but between 1953 and 1954 its debts diminished from $203 million to $108 million; last month it actually had a surplus of $43 million...
...America's heritage, pitted a group of townspeople against a stranger with "radical" ideas. Frightened when they discover that time is standing still as a result of their mistreatment of the stranger, a few try to gang up on the intruder only to find that time moves backward with each infringement of another man's rights. At length, they realize that the day is Dec. 15, the 163rd anniversary of the signing of the Bill of Rights. When they repent, time, once again, moves ahead. Reginald Rose's expert script and a fine cast made Studio...