Word: paced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three armed services were stepping up their cadence to meet the quickening pace of U.S. mobilization (see The Nation). Items...
Something was wrong with the way the Korean war was going. Since the commanders and troops had done well with what they had, it was not hard to trace the fault line back to the men who prescribe the pace of U.S. mobilization. The pace desperately needed to be stepped...
...pace of mobilization required by present U.S. obligations would have to be several times the pace at which Washington was ambling last week...
...down the backstretch of the 1950 baseball season, the World Champion New York Yankees had been chasing the pace-setting Detroit Tigers. As late as mid-August the Yankees were in third place, 4½ games behind. Last week, as the American League pennant race entered the September homestretch, the Yankees spurted into the lead...
...closely bunched; only five games separated the field this week. But Detroit fans, whose team had lost eight of its last 15 games, had to admit that their entry was beginning to look a little winded. Cleveland, smarting under four straight defeats by the Yankees, was falling behind the pace, too. The two hottest teams in the league were the hard-hitting (team batting average: .307) Boston Red Sox, in 3rd place after winning twelve of their last fourteen games, and the Yankees...