backwash

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Backwash In a completely different financial league from “Awkward Embraces” and “Jack in a Box” is the strange and heavily promoted serial “Backwash,”currently unspooling on Crackle.com, the Sony online entertainment site.

From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2010

It is the thing they are thinking, and doing, and learning in Backwash, Nebraska, that marks time for these United States.

From Fanny Herself by Ferber, Edna

We are witnessing a phase in the evolution of humanity, a phase called War—and the slow, onward progress stirs up the slime in the shallows, and this is the Backwash of War.

From The Backwash of War The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse by La Motte, Ellen Newbold

And one of the papers most frequently mentioned is "The Backwash."

From Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 by Bennett, Arnold

Every time "The Backwash" is mentioned, the reader thinks: "No paper called 'The Backwash' ever existed."

From Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 by Bennett, Arnold