Word: paced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Murrow and to Murrow and to Murrow crept in this petty pace many of the bell-clanging news stories of the past quarter-century. By 1941, after covering the blitz in Britain, Edward Roscoe Murrow was prestigious enough to be an intimate of F.D.R., and by 1946 (it took a bit more doing), important enough to be a vice president of CBS. But within two years he had abandoned his desk and paper-shuffling, and by 1951 was spending most of his energy on See It Now, the high-cost (up to $100,000 per show) documentary which, on subjects...
...jump in steel came largely from the pickup in autos. Sales of 128,000 new cars in February's first ten days rode ahead of the year-ago pace, and production last week climbed 36% above a year ago. The continuing production pickup pushed freight carloadings more than 6% above last year's level, the fifth straight weekly rise. Total industrial production in January moved up for the ninth straight month to 143% of the 1947-49 average, just four points below the all time peak of December 1956. Personal income was also up by $2.4 billion...
...many economists and housing experts agree that it is all the U.S. can afford at this time, considering the goals of a balanced budget and heavy commitments for national defense. Moreover, it is all the prosperous housing industry really needs to keep booming along at its present fast pace...
...evidence. At other times Mr. Gistirak has his charges constantly engaged in doing little pantomines, in running about the stage, in forming picturesque groupings and dissolving them again, in doing all sorts of unnecessary busy-work. Mr. McNamara especially has been induced, or at least allowed, to pace and fidget and mug past the point of caricature. Synge's purplest prose is as natural and spontaneous as a wild flower, but Mr. Gistirak has tried to manure it with shovelfuls of staginess...
Gerry Jones is easily the best goalie in the Ivy League. Against R.P.I. last week he turned away 49 shots to pace the Eli's 9-5 victory. Bruce Smith and Ted Ward, veterans from last year's team, form a competent defense pair...