Word: paced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most resourceful diplomats of the 20th century, but he does not fear to tangle with him, for he is confident that the West is in a sounder position. He refused to be frustrated by procedural trivia. He yielded when opposition was time wasted. He forced the pace when the Russians sought delay. "If conferences can do nothing better than to create new conferences, and the new conferences do nothing better than to create more new conferences . . . the whole conference method will become an object of ridicule, and we with it," he warned Molotov at one point...
Setting the pace in the downhill and the slalom, the alpine events, is harry Gardner, who has not competed so far this season, but whom Taylor considers the best in these events. Noel Scullin, another alpine man, has turned in the best competitive marks this season, and Taylor rates him second to Gardener...
...rejects a serious plane for the freedom of fantasy. Ondine is a splash of brilliant costumes (Richard Whorf) and imaginative sets (Peter Larkin). The appearance of such characters as three Loreli-type sprites and a walking replica of Venus de Milo break into the narrative to keep the lively pace...
...pace that saw upsets over Princeton, Brandeis, and Yale in the Crimson's last three games will hardly be necessary to beat the Jeffs; the visitors were walloped by the varsity, 69 to 49, in the opening round of the Crimson tourney at Dartmouth, and that was long before Harvard reached its peak...
Since then, Harlow Curtice has never slowed his pace. Up at 6 a.m. every morning, in his suite in the G.M. building in Detroit, he spends upwards of 14 hours a workday on the job, usually sees his family in Flint, his hometown, only on weekends. Though head of the world's biggest manufacturing corporation (1953 sales: an estimated $11 billion), he is not above taking a complaint about service personally over the phone from a G.M. car owner, and doing something about it. Design is his hobby, and the new cars incorporate some of the features...