Word: backwards
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This activity is, of course, not limited to Harvard students. People all over the country observe Saint Patrick's Day not by celebrating the rich and colorful Irish culture, but rather by perpetuating the ugly stereotype of the Irish as the happy alcoholic inhabitants of a backward land who talk funny...
Which country is the more 'backward...
Ireland is not a backward nation of drunken Leprechauns...
...unpleasant surprises for the U.S. and its allies. Despite widespread reports of low morale among Iraqi frontline troops, those in Khafji fought tenaciously, prolonging the battle for hours after the Saudis announced they had retaken the town. One column of tanks approached the Saudi border with their guns pointing backward, which allied forces took as a sign that the troops manning them wanted to defect; instead the Iraqis swiveled their turrets around rapidly and opened fire. There was a bitter possibility that the very first Americans known to have died in combat in the gulf, the 11 Marines, were killed...
...repeatedly / between right and left, trying to stay in command of a center that he kept moving slowly leftward, toward greater democracy. At the same time he was steadily expanding his own powers, at least on paper, but implicitly pledging to use those powers to force reform on a backward bureaucracy...