Word: paced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mobile people; upwards of 30 million changed residence in 1951. Since most states and counties have long residence requirements, a lot of shifting citizens temporarily lose their vote every election. Needed, in conjunction with the drive for more voters: an updating of U.S. state election laws to keep pace with peripatetic Americans...
...democratic; but even in . . . western countries that have had a long experience of working parliamentary institutions, the real control of the electorate over the government will have become less effective than it was in the igth century, because the rise in the standard of education will not have kept pace either with the dilution of the electorate or with the increasing complicatedness and technicality of public business." In less experienced states, Toynbee suggests, an even greater gulf will grow "between democratic form and bureaucratic fact...
...More than 90% of U.S. headaches are caused by frustration, tension and anxiety, said Cornell University's Dr. Harold G. Wolff. To relieve much of the suffering, he prescribed a different attitude toward life and a slower pace...
...eight years, and there were good reasons. Even among Italian operas, the plot is a wildly improbable one, and the whole opera runs for 3½ hours. Yet it has one of Verdi's fieriest scores, some of his most memorable arias, e.g., the soprano's Pace, Pace and the old Caruso-De Luca specialty, Solenne in Quest' Ora (Swear in This Hour). Director Bing, who has already restyled Verdi's Don Carlo, Aida and Rigoletto-and who wants "very much to have in this house a complete Verdi cycle" -settled on Forza...
...thought it "a step in the right direction, but I'm afraid, a very small step. It's just an extension of the Morgan vs. Virginia case--in 1944--when the Court ruled bus lines could not segregate Negroes. However, the Court has been proceeding, at a very slow pace, towards elimination of Jim Crow rules...