Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what usually happens to Brown is that people pass him by without a backward glance. Then, he is likely to burst into a foot-stomping temper, as he did recently at the Los Angeles County Fair, in a much-publicized incident...
...familiar face and homey presence do not arouse much ardor among the voters. At the Los Angeles County fair in September, as the Governor was trying to galvanize a small audience with the glories of the state park program, hundreds of fairgoers strolled past with hardly a backward look. With a touch of sadness, Pat shouted at them "It's important that you know about this. You put your money in taxes, and this is what we do with it." Though he is trim and tanned and tips the scales at precisely the same weight-185 Ibs.-as Reagan...
...riots changed Watts. As one of the coffeehouse militants told me, 'Watts was considered backward among Negroes before...the riots put her on the map." For five days the nation's eyes turned toward Watts, and this new-found sense of importance is still very much alive; it echoes, for instance, in the words of ghetto-poet Johnnie Scott: "A man called Fear has inherited a half-acre, and is angry." Eldridge Cleaver, in a letter written from Folsom Prison shortly after the outbreak, sums it up: "Watts was a place of shame. We used to use Watts...
...backward race for the National League pennant will move to the next to the last day. The Giants will play a double-header in Pittsburgh with Juan Marichal scheduled to pitch one, and the Dodgers will serve up the "new" Don Drysdale against the Phillies...
Faustian Galaxy. To eliminate this apparent flaw in an otherwise symmetrical universe, Stannard suggests that there is another universe "embed ded in the same space-time framework" as man's-only its time runs backward. Such a "Faustian"* universe, he says, would be unobservable by earthmen because Faustian matter would not in teract with normal matter; it would separate out into planets, solar systems and galaxies...