Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...native Haitian archbishop and four new Haitian bishops. The Vatican in return sent a new Papal nuncio and lifted Duvalier's earlier excommunication. As for the Communists, Haiti is one of the few Latin American countries on which they seem to have no designs: it is too helplessly backward even for them...
...reading 100 words, the eye makes 100 to 150 stops, called "fixation pauses." Each fixation takes about one-quarter of a second. In moving from one fixation to another, the eye makes a quick jerk which takes only about 15 thousandths of a second. The eye often moves backward toward the beginning of the line to get a clearer view of the material or to reread it. These are called regressions and occur about ten times per 100 words. The interfixation moves--the jerks between words as well as the return sweep after each line is finished--take only...
...Backward Glance...
Costa has made a point that he will vigorously push "all measures that increase agriculture and cattle production, as well as raise productivity." To expand Brazil's backward agriculture, he plans to step up the pace of a two-year-old land-reform program, aimed at extending credit to small farmers, providing them with technical guidance and breaking up the country's huge estates. It will be a much harder and longer task to eradicate the inevitable result of Brazil's farm troubles: the sprawling belts of poverty and misery throughout the countryside, where 50% of Brazil...
...Kennedy from the grassy knoll in the front of the Presidential limousine. Manchester never even confronts the possibility that the bullet which killed the President may have come from the front of the car. He does, however, speak all too graphically of parts of Kennedy's scalp flying backward...