Backwater
Backwater noun - A rural region that forms the edge of the settled or developed part of a country.
Nearby Word: backward
Help
Help verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.
Both words in one sentence
- There's also a subplot with a plague that sends Threepio and Artoo careening from one misadventure to another before being rescued by a retired Admiral Daala of all people, who then proceeds to help out because she hates the Imperial moff involved in the political upheaval of said backwater system.
- According to the help file included with the registered version of Doom, the Marine was relocated to Mars, a backwater dustball whose only notable features were scientific outposts on its moons, in lieu of a court-martial for striking a commanding officer who had ordered him to fire on civilians.
Source: Reassignment Backfire -
Finding no help from either man, Strobe looks for an escape route of his own— and thinks he found it... "Color Scheme": The civil rights movement comes to the backwater town of Chaseville, Mississippi, when the local blacks march in a peaceful protest.
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