Word: paced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Snail's Pace. The long-standing indecision of the Administration showed on other fronts. In his Economic Report, despite promises of vast expenditures in the future, the President gave some idea of the relatively niggling size of the rearmament effort to date. Currently, he pointed out, rearmament is taking 7% of the national output; next year it may take as much as 18%. In World War II, rearmament absorbed 45% of all the nation's wealth and property...
Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas (see below) offered further evidence of the snail's pace of the war effort. "Total expenditures of the Department of Defense," he said, "for the six months up to Jan. 2, 1951, were $7.9 billions as compared to $7.2 billions during the comparable period of the year before. This was an increase of only 9%. Yet the military situation is certainly more than 9% more serious than it was a year...
Skip Johnson pounded in four goals to pace Leverett's attack. Defenseman Dan Simonds added another two to a fine all-around game. Simonds' rushing and Johnson's accurate shooting were the main reasons Leverett controlled the game at every point...
...number of colleges are reacting to the quickening pace of mobilization with a speed-up. Yesterday, Williams announced that the school was accelerating its program to the three-term-a-year basis it used during the war. Princeton is reported thinking about a similar switch, and so are other schools. It looks as if they have acted with more speed than decision...
...race was the 220-yard freestyle between the two captains. Jack Craigie, the best man at this distance in West Point history, let Berke take an early lead, preferring to swim at his own pace...