Word: paced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remarkable thing about walkers is their deceptively fast speed-8 m.p.h.-about twice as fast as the average person's brisk walk, and two-thirds as fast as the best men run a mile. The trick is to whip up a hot pace while keeping the toe of one foot on the ground until the other heel hits (both feet cannot be off the ground simultaneously...
...London regatta requires a complete readaptation of the spring's techniques to enable the crew to keep up a winning pace over a distance twice that of other races. This year will bring additional problems in the form of Olympic Trials five days after New London and a resuling urgency in reducing the rowing distance again...
...gangbuster, Citation is an unspectacular mahogany bay. When he moves from behind, he seems to draw a bead on the pacemaker and the power is turned on slowly. When Citation sets the pace (he runs just as well that way), he looks lethargic and uninterested. Once he gets in front, the jockey has to keep reminding him that he is in a horse race. With the odds 1 to 10, Arcaro played his little game again with Citation, to the delight of the fans. He let other horses sneak up on him, then clucked. The gangbuster won by ten lengths...
...manners became fashionable in big-time tennis after World War I. Suzanne Lenglen and Big Bill Tilden set the style -and the pace. One day on the French Riviera, so the story goes, a hot-tempered Austrian almost outdid everybody when he won a tournament; openly sneering at the tiny silver trophy that was presented to him, he set it down in midcourt and squashed it flat with a roller. Last week, in Paris, tomboyish Patricia Canning Todd, No. 4 among U.S. women players, did her bit to keep the tradition alive...
...Outward Bound Sea School in Wales, 100 different boys come each month from schools, farms and factories throughout Britain, get to know something about "the sea, each other and themselves." At reviving Salem, 340 demoralized young Germans are learning democracy, fitness and "active Christianity" -though chronic hunger slows the pace...