Word: paced
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...week, there was some hope in the fact that the North Koreans seemed to be in a desperate hurry. Their dead piled up in heaps before U.S. machine guns that jammed from their own heat. The North Koreans kept on coming; the Americans fought to keep their own pace, when they were driven back, to orderly retirement. It was a furious assault, and soundly based on the lessons of military history; the North Koreans were trying to turn a stubbornly fought retreat into a rout, seize the Pusan beachhead area, destroy the U.N. forces...
...there were not enough men to extend the Allied line to the west coast, and furthermore, the U.S. left had to be pulled back as Korea's defenders retired to the build-up zone around Pusan. But the North Koreans sped the withdrawal to a dangerous pace. They simply poured around the open flank. At some points they were lightly resisted by small contingents of South Korean constabulary and marines who fired a few shots before clearing out; at other points they encountered no resistance...
...twelve-car, ten-lap first heat, Rathman stuck with the pace for four laps, then gunned and jockeyed his big car into the lead, won by two lengths. In the first semifinal (15 laps) he had a little more trouble. No matter what he did, he was unable to catch a midget red Crosley labeled "½ Pint" which spun into the turns on two wheels, snaked through the bigger cars like a frightened jaywalker, beat Rathman's Cadillac by four lengths...
...first game Hicks set a fast pace. Using an unorthodox side stroke, something like a golfer's putting stroke, he played around the course without a miss, posted a perfect 26. Reckitt, sticking to the conventional between -the -knees swing, flubbed early, got a meager eight, and Hicks won the game: plus-18, i.e., the difference in scores...
Under a globe-shaped clock stopped at 5 minutes to 12, some 850 delegates from 68 countries and more than 4,000 other members of the church kept things moving at a fast pace, in keeping with Adventist belief that the end of the world is just around the corner. San Francisco hardly knew they were there; after each session the austere, nondrinking, non-smoking Adventists faded quietly into their small hotels and motels...