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...this atmosphere, minor and major events are seen as portents. Kissinger jokingly tries on an Arab headdress in Jordan; to some Jews this symbolizes his wooing of the Arabs (and because he himself is Jewish, he is believed by some other Jews to be bending over backward to demonstrate
...Truman." More articulate than in the early days of his presidency, Ford drew no guffaws when he failed several times to pronounce integrated correctly. His audience laughed with him, not at him, when he finally gave up with the remark, "I told my wife Betty I knew this speech backward, and I'm proving...
...with the rifle shows up only seconds after the film of the president being shot seems to demonstrate, from the backward jerk of his head and body, that the bullet or bullets which killed him came from in front of the car, perhaps precisely from the spot--known to students of the assassination as the "grassy knoll"--where the man with the rifle is situated. Lee Harvey Oswald, of course, supposedly shot President Kennedy from in back of him, out of a window in the Texas School Book Depository. The filmed evidence of the actual shooting, which certainly seems...
Katherine felt herself to be struggling somewhere in the middle, between two harbors, unable to decide whether to swim backward or forward, tempted almost to close her eyes and quietly drown where she was Shuttle, shuttle, she murmured to herself, miserably, exasperated at her weakness, her helplessness...
...what Sinologists were calling the "fairy caves" theory: that Mao has withdrawn from day-to-day affairs to ponder China's future. Twice before Mao removed himself from the political battlefront: in the late 1950s, when his Great Leap Forward was proving to be a ghastly blunder backward; and in the mid-1960s, when he feared that bureaucracy would strangle the revolution and he retired to plan the Cultural Revolution...