Word: throwback
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Schoolchildren are now taught in Katherevousa, a once-obscure mixture of ancient and modern Greek, which many observers consider a linguistic throwback designed "to keep information and education away from the masses," as one anti-junta activist said...
...classes; instead of raging in the streets to protest national issues, they toil on committees studying campus problems. The abrasive cant of radicals is scarcely to be heard. Such square fads as booze, early Beatle records and card playing are making something of a comeback. It is not a throwback to the silent '50s. As the demonstrations against the Laos invasion by South Vietnam forces last week showed, the students have by no means shed their deep concerns about the war?or poverty and the environment. Yale President Kingman Brewster calls the new mood an "eerie tranquillity...
KPFT Manager Larry Lee figures, without much hope, that the station's future depends upon the capture and stiff sentencing of its assailants. But in its adversity, KPFT has won new and widespread supporters of its own. The Houston Post ran an editorial condemning the sabotage as "a throwback to barbarism reminiscent of the book burning of Hitler's Germany." The Post has also offered a $1,500 reward for evidence leading to the arrest and conviction of the culprits...
Cambridge dons and students protested Maudling's decision, while the Times of London, in a throwback to its earlier reputation as "The Thunderer" declared, "It is a shabby and unworthy decision, timorous, insular and morally wrong." Dutschke, who suffered an epileptic seizure apparently as a result of the excitement, last week appealed the decision. If opinion continues to run in his favor, the Tories may well back down rather than risk offending the British concept of fair play...
...sounded at first like a throwback to the Depression days of Bonnie and Clyde: three men and two women, with guns blazing, making their getaway from the Brighton branch of Boston's State Street Bank and Trust Co. with $26,000 in stolen cash. Patrolman Walter A. Schroeder, 42, a hero cop and father of nine, tried to head them off- only to be cut down and left dying by a burst of gunfire. When the police were able to piece together what had happened last week, the bank heist appeared to be a bold and bloody new departure...