Word: paced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wing Commander Roland Beamont, the pilot, reported that he saw the sun coming up over Ireland as he took off. As he landed at Gander, the sun was just over the horizon: the plane had come within an ace of keeping pace with the sun's own transatlantic crossing...
Kenya's British police have caught and jailed 1,000 Mau-Mau blacks, flogged thousands more. Yet the secret society is growing at a pace that suggests professional organization and funds from abroad. The Mau-Mau's leader, Kenya officials are sure, is black-bearded Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, 50, a thickset Kikuyu dandy, who runs the outwardly respectable Kenya African Union (K.A.U.), whose stated purpose is Negro advancement. A London-trained anthropologist who wrote (1938) a first-rate study of his people, Facing Mt. Kenya, Kenyatta is a devotee of Red magic. He spent...
...impossible not to do so, and she likes her infinitives split. Louella is aware of these oddities and will talk about them frankly, explaining that she types so badly that it is difficult to read what she has written, and when she dictates, she does so at a terrific pace. The result is a chatty, intimate, informal, verbose and, on the whole, knowledgeable hodgepodge...
...keep pace with this seemingly insatiable demand, the U.S. productive machine is growing at a record rate. In the second quarter, said the Commerce Department, gross national output (i.e., the value of all goods & services) hit a new high-an annual rate of $343 billion, up 12% since Korea. One measure of the growth came in a report on nonmanufacturing industries, e.g., transportation and utilities, which keep the others humming. Since the war, reported Commerce and the SEC this week, these industries have poured $85 billion into new plants and equipment, equal to 75% of their total assets...
...candidate himself called his pace "intensive." In his Denver hotel headquarters, Eisenhower was getting a tremendous load of work done. Each day he worked steadily from 8 a.m. to noon, then held open house for an hour for practically anyone who wanted to see him, then continued his briefing sessions with advisers on through the evening. The round of policy conferences was relentless. Among the week's visitors...