Word: mell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Worst of all, the campaign's pell-mell pace prevents the newsman from pausing a while to ponder what he has seen and heard. There is scarcely time enough to keep up with the candidate. Last week Barry Goldwater's party, traveling by train for a spell, pulled so abruptly out of the station in Athens, Ohio, that about 30 newsmen were stranded on the platform...
...locked up with reporters and photographers in the Danville, Va., city hall when police flushed demonstrators down off the steps. But at no time did I ever feel that there was an absolute breakdown of community leadership such as I saw in Harlem, where mobs of people ran pell-mell in an open battle with the police...
Behind the exodus is the fact that Strongman Premier Ne Win, driving pell-mell along his "Burmese road to Socialism," has nationalized all small businesses, banks and warehouses, denied trading licenses to aliens, and prohibited non-Burmese from taking government jobs. Ne Win's edicts struck particularly hard at the Indians, who have become the nation's sharpest shopkeepers, but have been reluctant to take out Burmese citizenship...
Most of the excitement of the afternoon was provided by the two-year-old who broke through the circle of on-lookers and advanced pell-mell on the small group of folksingers. An embarrassed mother rescued him before he had a chance to step on any guitars...
...surprise of the 1962-63 season, doesn't have a great deal on paper; the Ramblers have no depth and little height. But Loyola plays the most exciting brand of basketball in the country: they employ a full-court press forty minutes a game and a pell-mell offense which averaged 94 points a game during the regular season. Their attack is paced by 6 ft. 2 in. All American Jerry Harkness...