Word: backwashes
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Room for Maneuver. Within France itself, the pent-up hopes and fears of all the years burst out in an ugly backwash of bitterness. De Gaulle found himself caught between a left demanding that France negotiate peace and a right insisting that war be waged to the bitter end. In Paris last week, 200 cops manned the gates and roofs of the Palais de Justice as Pierre Lagaillarde, cocky right-wing leader of the January insurrection, went on trial with 19 others for insurrection against the state. In Algiers, police cordoned the squares to head off threatened protest riots...
...eyesight, espied the lake's most celebrated resident frolicking in its blue waters. From one sea-serpent watcher came the latest description of the elusive, shy Loch Ness Monster: "I saw several humps and a long, thin, brown-colored tail in the middle of the lake. The backwash was about the length of three fishing boats...
...omission of phrenology from the Harvard curriculum is indeed unfortunate, for it is a part of the great American cultural heritage, what Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., has called "the intellectual backwash of a backward frontier economy." Surely such stuff is fit meat for the intellectual appetites of hungry Harvard students...
...colorless and hollow names of Hattie S., 58, Walter B., 42, and two-year-old Ellen "with auburn hair, greenish eyes, dimples and an impish smile" are shattered, hungry, confused, forsaken, and pained men, women, and infants. Their uncommon glory is to be the dregs of prosperity, the stagnant backwash of our land of freedom and liberty and forever free enterprise...
...injustice and frustration." The dream which Americans have lived on and with which they currently seem to be disenchanted is also the dream of those nations occupying the grey land stretching from Iran to Korea. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are attributes of the good life in Backwash, U.S.A., as well as in Cairo and Rangoon...