Word: backwash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bill of Rights itself had a backwash against reenlistment. By staying in the service, an airman deprived himself of thousands of dollars worth of veterans' rights, especially education. The Statistics Control Division survey showed that of the 80% refusing to re-up, 48.6% were headed for college under the G.I. Bill. The Air Force could offer little to dissuade them...
National inter-party argument over the Harry Dexter White case last fall started a rolling backwash of tough anti-subversive bills in a number of state legislatures...
National inter-party argument over the Harry Dexter White case last fall started a rolling backwash of tough anti-subversive bills in a number of state legislatures...
Captain Adam G. Meister Jr. of St. Petersburg, Fla., a medical officer, had hooked up with jumpers on the right side of the plane when a red light flashed the five-minute warning earlier in the flight. But as the plane pitched in the backwash of planes ahead, he felt airsick, reached up, unhooked his chute from the static line and sat down. His chute or pack caught in the bucket seat. He sat, struggling but immovable, as the abandon-ship bell shrilled, as his fellow jumpers tumbled out, and as the plane crashed...
Inspired by a news story of an actual incident that took place in a Tuscan village, the picture tells of an Italian soldier (Raf Vallone) who, after ten years of war and Russian captivity, returns to his native village. There he encounters the tragic backwash of war. His younger brother is dead, betrayed as a partisan to the Nazis by a friend. When the soldier announces that he is out to avenge the death of his brother, the villagers, weary of bloodshed, shun him and refuse to identify the betrayer. The soldier's best friend, a pious carpenter (Alain...