Word: rearward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aircraft industry has been slower to appreciate the Stapp research. Time and again he has advocated rearward facing seats in transports, argued eloquently that passengers riding backwards would stand a good chance of surviving many crashes. Although he talks with the authority of a man who has lived through such lethal decelerations, he has made surprisingly little headway among private airlines (though passengers in new Air Force transports face the rear...
Imperial experience has taught the British a lot. Britain now believes that an agile balance of concede and conserve can transform a restless empire into a friendly commonwealth. The process makes the British empire hard to define because, as British Historian Eric Walker wrote: "It is the rearward portion of a procession, a large part of which has long since crossed the flood that divided dependence from autonomy, and part is crossing...
After reading TIME'S keynote address for the Rearward Pilgrimage to the Shapeless Void (or) Daddy Warbucks' School of Anniversary Reflections, I suggest that its Twi-speaking editors celebrate its 31st birthday with less sophistry and more eggs...