back-water
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"When he was coming up, it definitely was a back-water kind of practice," said Lavin.
From Chicago Tribune ● Jun. 12, 2012
In 1914, when intelligence-testers began to impress the nation, Principal Persis K. Miller of Locust Point's public school asked Johns Hopkins' Psychiatrist Adolf Meyer to survey the community, a social back-water of Baltimore.
From Time Magazine Archive
Municipal government has long been regarded as the great back-water of American democracy: a world of political patronage and special-interest jockeying in which policy discussions rarely move beyond synchronizing traffic lights.
From Time Magazine Archive
Logs were shooting from the apron of the sluiceway and leaping to the lift of the foaming back-water, like lean hunters taking the billowy top of a wind-tossed hedge.
From Lost Farm Camp by Knibbs, Harry Herbert
Below Fulton, the stream is quite swift and the scenery more rugged, the evidences of disastrous spring overflows and back-water from the Rock being visible on every hand.
From Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers by Thwaites, Reuben Gold
