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  • Administrators at a suburban Chicago high school were apparently not thrilled about the dance moves of their student body--and have banned back-to-front dancing from future...

    High School Bans 'Sexually Explicit' Dancing Jen Sabella 2011

  • Administrators at a suburban Chicago high school were apparently not thrilled about the dance moves of their student body--and have banned "back-to-front dancing" from future school functions.

    High School Bans 'Sexually Explicit' Dancing Jen Sabella 2011

  • The back-to-front risotto had no rice in it at all, with squid pieces made to replicate the risotto, and the entire dish was hidden by generous slices of Périgord truffles.

    Meals Without Limits Bruce Palling 2011

  • Administrators at a suburban Chicago high school were apparently not thrilled about the dance moves of their student body--and have banned "back-to-front dancing" from future...

    High School Bans 'Sexually Explicit' Dancing Jen Sabella 2011

  • Good article, Chris, but your soda-machine idea is back-to-front.

    Does OpenID need to be hard? | FactoryCity 2009

  • Out of his backpack he took the current issue of the Economist, and an Arabic broadsheet newspaper, which he opened and read in the correct, back-to-front manner, with much absorption, between 125th Street and Stamford, Conn. — at least that was what he was doing when, at regular intervals, I awoke from my motion-induced coma.

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • United Airlines and Delta Air Lines Inc. both employ window-middle-aisle boarding schemes, and United will switch its Continental Airlines unit, which boards back-to-front, to window-middle-aisle next year.

    Airlines Go Back to Boarding School to Move Fliers Onto Planes Faster Scott McCartney 2011

  • I think we have got it back-to-front in this country … we should be placing the focus on terminating pursuits ON THE CRIMINALS - NOT THE POLICE.

    Inspector Gadget RANTS about ‘car chases’ SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • This really is turning into a breathtaking spell of sustained fussicking from the charismatic frontman, who seems to be growing before our eyes with every fruitless arm-hole thrust, every back-to-front spasm of the neck-vent.

    MBMs we wish we'd done in 2011 – No3: Mario Balotelli's bib meltdown | Barney Ronay 2011

  • A back-to-front question mark, it was deployed by the 16th-century printer Henry Denham to signal rhetorical questions, and in 1899 the French poet Alcanter de Brahm suggested reviving it.

    Is This the Future of Punctuation Henry Hitchings 2011

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