Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week gangling, spectacled Phumiphon was on the Red Sea in the steamship Selandia, with his pretty fiancée, 17-year-old Siamese Princess Sirikit Kitiyakara at his side. In Bangkok's downtown dance halls, where Siam's hepcats curve their fingers backward and dance the rumwong, the hit of the week was a song composed by the royal jitterbug Phumiphon himself...
...decided that his trunk muscles had developed enough for him to be fitted with his first pair of legs. Made of plastic, the legs are only thigh-length (usual for learners), and held to Freddie's body by a corset-like harness. The toes of the stumps point backward for better balance. A simple screw adjustment made by the nurse or mother makes the legs flex so that Freddie can sit down...
Standard cinema technique is to use only one camera, which is dollied forward or backward for each different shot. The consequent waste of time and continuous changes of lighting have run the cost of film far beyond the cost of a "live" telecast. Even the cheapest B movie costs upwards of $100,000, and it takes about 60 minutes of working time to produce one minute of film...
...Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, the National Association of Colored Women. Miss Paul and her cohorts rapped on Senate doors, buttonholed Senators. Their weapons were whatever came to hand-documents, dialectics, plain talk and implied political threats. Some, like Ernestine Bellamy, distant relative of Edward (Looking Backward) Bellamy, splendidly flashed the most invincible feminine weapon...
...denned it, called for nothing less than "a vast Reformation in the world's ways of earning its living." Europe would have to drop its notion that the American concept of "service as the path to profit" is "either sheer folly or gross hypocrisy." The world's backward areas needed a good deal more than American know-how and vague talk about Point 4. The U.S. had to export the American concept of business...