Word: paced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first day of the new regime was calm. But during the night, bonfires burned in the hills near the capital, ominously spelling out in the darkness the initials M.N.R. The following night, partisans attacked a police station; one policeman was killed, three wounded. That, paceños feared, was only the beginning...
When a rumor got around La Paz last week that the President was deep in a closed-door conference with the generals and colonels, paceños knew that something was up. At 3 a.m., weary reporters saw President Mamerto Urriolagoitia and two military aides hustle out of the palace, get into a car and drive away. Then army officers Banded out a batch of press releases, including a message from Urriolagoitia: "Despite my constant efforts to conduct the political struggle into channels of peace and tranquillity . . . our country is again faced with a dilemma . . . Accordingly, I hereby deliver...
...Social Relations Department is a special case. While great enthusiasm exists for closer faculty-student relations, a fairly large amount of money is still needed. This is because the department's budget has been unable to keep pace with the great increase in Social Relations concentrators over the past few years. Also, Social Relations always employs a large number of guest lecturers who can never tutor as well as permanent faculty members...
Eliot looked like a sure winner as the ball game opened. Behind Buzz Vonderlage's pitching, the Elephants took four quick runs in the first inning. As the second inning began, so did the rains, and the next four innings were played at a slow pace through...
...tale is still Andersen's universally appealing parable of the ancient Chinese emperor who learned to value carefree nature above sterile pomp and artifice. It is told with a good deal of charm, taste and imagination. But it is also overlong and repetitious. How well its deliberate pace will hold U.S. youngsters, raised on Walt Disney's blur-of-action technique, is a question that only the children themselves can settle...