Word: throwbacks
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...throwback to the Spanish Inquisition. He calls in people and proceeds to make fools of them by twisting their answers . . . They have no rebuttal because they have no recourse to the press, radio and magazines. It is Nazi-like, and what makes it all so much more of a fiasco is that he has never been responsible for the conviction of one-of one, mind you-Communist...
...monstrous scale, in its time, U.S. chattel slavery was not a conservative institution. Superficially a throwback, it was more truly an innovation, a creature of expediency, begot by the cotton gin on anti-conservative ideas of economic determination. The ante-bellum South prattled Calhoun's words, wallowed in Walter Scott, spoke the noble language of local rights and traditions. But it acted, in the crisis, out of the motives of the pocketbook, according to the way Bentham and Marx said men must...
...Hellabrunn horses are a modern throwback to that ancient breed-the end products of careful experiment. Unlike the average horseman, who works at improving the breed, Geneticist Heinz Heck, the Hellabrunn Zoo's director, has spent most of his professional life looking backward. He created the ersatz tarpans by reversing the process of evolution...
...Baron Erik von Frenckell, Helsinki's mayor, proclaimed this week the traditional "Olympic truce" (a throwback to the B.C. days when the Greeks called off their local wars to celebrate the games), there were a few inevitable rhubarbs. Both Nationalist and Red China, along with East Germany, suddenly and belatedly demanded admission for their teams. Bulgaria, which drew Russia in a first-round soccer match, complained bitterly when a soccer "unknown," The Netherlands West Indies, drew a first-round...
...throwback to the 1948 Democratic Convention, where Nominee Truman, in a 2 a.m. acceptance speech, announced that he was summoning Congress into special session for July 26, "which out in Missouri they call Turnip...