Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...really hopeful thing is that Turkey isn't standing still, or slipping backward. It's advancing. Turkish agricultural land is expanding; this year there is an alltime high of 10.5 million hectares under cultivation. The Turk is a hard worker and he's used to sacrifice. Last month, the central Anatolian plain was seething with harvest activity. Though 1,283 ECA combines have been imported since 1948, most of the threshing is done by ancient methods. Oxen pull sleds, equipped with sharp flint points, around & around in the harvested wheat stocks, cutting them apart. Then the peasant...
...none of these. It is, in fact, the work of an advertising agency copywriter named Walter Kranz. He composed a singing commercial for a Denver clothing store, tape-recorded it, accidentally played it backward. It sounded better that way. Kranz made a transcription, took it to McCoy, and McCoy...
...Russia, with its backward industry and limited oil reserves, the jets are an answer to a Communist prayer. Jets are rugged, have fewer moving parts, only a few of which have to be machined to fine piston-engine tolerances. They do not necessarily need high-octane gas, but fly on kerosene, wood alcohol, or, as one U.S. officer puts it, even "on coffee or old rags." The NKVD was instructed to round up everyone in Germany who knew how to build jets. U.S. and British bombers had done the Russians an unintentional favor by making the Nazis push their factories...
...Admiralty dispatched four 1,710-ton destroyers from Malta to the Aqaba area. Said the Daily Express: "Britain's patience with Egyptian pretensions . . . wins her no credit among these backward peoples. Merely contempt." A London bus conductor fumed: "It's about time we shook our fist under their noses -those damned foreigners...
...poem is redeemed by an elegiac backward look to the early days of Paterson, when "the breathing spot of the village was the triangle square . . . Well shaded by trees with a common in the center where the country circus pitched its tents...