All that stands in their way are the St Louis Cardinals, whose backs are seemingly up against the wall.
Portraying himself as an innocent caught between two dangerous tribes, Chagnon spares no perceived enemy, including, it seems, the people on whose backs he built his career.
Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukWHEN next you visit one of England's Tate museums, spare a thought for the slaves on whose backs the Tate & Lyle sugar empire originally rose.
Along River Avenue, visitors from New Jersey and Connecticut stroll in and out of souvenir stores buying T-shirts whose backs declare "RODRIGUEZ 13".
It ran up on a median, crossed a bicycle path, smashed a bench and slammed into the pedestrians, whose backs were turned to the oncoming car.
I laid out a card table that jutted into the kitchen, arranging folding chairs whose backs knocked the walls and caught at the door's handle.
The N.C.A.A. investigators do not have to deal with the emotions of the young athletes whom they punish and whose backs they ride to multimillion-dollar television contracts.
But do more than think, try to find a way to help the people whose backs your life is built on.
"Burden": it's illuminating to see just how malleable the definition of that word has become – and whose backs we think should bear its weight.
Stink bugs, whose backs resemble knights' shields, do not bite humans and pose no known health hazards — even the fruit they have gotten to is edible, once the hardened parts are cut out.
"I hope they realize how they got to where they are and who is responsible and whose backs they are on and how to build on it and not destroy it," Mr. Gray said.
