Word: paced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the game of now-you-see-'em-now-you-don't hit such a dizzy pace that even its master player tried to call it quits...
...aghast at the idea of a beanball or "duster" (a pitch aimed at the batter's head to scare him away from the plate). Righthander Hannie never has to resort to such strategy, because ordinarily he simply strikes out half the opposing batters. He has no change-of-pace pitch or slow ball, only a curve ("which I invented myself") and a fast ball ("which I hope some day to be as good as Feller"). Because Honkbal is played on soccer fields, Hannie has never had the advantage of pitching from the raised (15 in.) mound, but since equipment...
Shortly after, Peroutka escaped from Czechoslovakia, hidden in a furniture van, and made his way to the U.S. The Reds continued to purge staff members, and last week eliminated the "twelve letters" completely. The Lidove Noviny was closed because it "was not keeping pace with the expanding and manifold cultural life of Czechoslovakia." In its place the Reds began to publish a faithful imitation of Moscow's Literary Gazette...
There are many charming speeches and effects; there are bright stunts like a slowly uncoiling sentence 293 words long. But on the stage the play lacks pace and flow, the detail eats up the design. Venus is none the better for Sir Laurence Olivier's irresolute staging, which leaves most of the cast uncharacterized and even Lilli Palmer living entirely off charm. The splendid exceptions are Rex Harrison as the duke and John Williams as the estate manager. Fry, in his own words, is here coruscating on thin ice; and he has forgotten Emerson's warning that...
...clothes are often rumpled, his shoes unshined, his collar open and his tie askew. He wears a battered hat atop his silvery head and a topcoat that looks as if it came off the pile at Sears-which it did. He munches, instead of smokes, cigarettes. Despite his breakneck pace, Wood is still pink-cheeked and healthy; his 180 lb., 5 ft. 9½-in. frame is tough as rawhide. His simple formula: "A good night's sleep, a good appetite and sound elimination are a man's chief concern...