Word: paced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wheel in the backfield, and all five can be in motion before the ball is snapped. There is ample opportunity for the organized confusion of trick plays and hipper-dipper, crowdpleasing football. There are no time outs except for injury, and Canadian football takes on an even more frantic pace because a team is allowed only three downs to gain ten yards. Passes come fast and frequently as quarterbacks shoot for the distance. The ball changes hands so often that kicking takes on an exaggerated importance. Downfield, a punt receiver is allowed no fair catches, gets only the dubious protection...
...workers at their South Bend plant to accept a 14% wage cut (TIME, Aug. 23). Jim Nance & Co. will :need every additional economy they can find. In 1954's auto race,* the Big Three have gobbled up 94% of the market, given notice of an even faster pace...
...Vancouver's big race, Australian Landy broke fast and was out in front by the end of the first quarter. He increased his pace, for only by getting a good lead could he hope to hold off Briton Bannister's famed finishing kick. But longjawed Roger Bannister never let him get out of reach. He dogged the Australian's strides closely and carefully, was hanging on easily when Landy passed the metric-mile post (1,500 meters) at a better-than-world's-record clip (3:41.9). There Bannister turned on his fabulous reserve power...
Pool Tables & TV. For nearly two years, LeMay sponsored sports-car races on SAC air bases, giving a new push to auto racing in the U.S. and at the same time relaxing his command's normally tense pace. Up to 65,000 paying spectators turned up for the shows. LeMay wistfully refrained from driving in the races, but friends jockeyed his $4,500 Cadillac-Allard around the courses. LeMay's purposes in promoting the races: 1) to give his high-grade tinkerers a useful hobby, and 2) to raise money (the races have netted about...
...hobbyists have bought the new products so fast that industry is hard pressed to keep pace with demand. Almost anything new catches on instantly. Three months ago, Denver's Rocky Mountain News started a do-it-yourself column, In one of its first articles it explained how to build an aluminum carport. By noon the next day, the News switchboard had received 200 calls; seven local firms immediately went into the business with carport kits, and so far have sold...