Word: paced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...primary aim of the five-year plan is to make Yugoslavia economically self-sufficient by a policy of industrialization pursued at breakneck pace. Tito last summer claimed that 50% of the goal had been accomplished. Last week the five-year plan's mastermind Boris Kidric, chairman of the Planning Commission, raised the claim of fulfillment...
...fast pace of the plan helps to defeat it. There is much shoddy building. Imported machines are being wrecked almost as fast as they can be bought. Skilled labor is desperately short...
Basketball's breakneck pace puts wind and stamina to a sterner test than even modern football does. That is the reason why basketball coaches here & there have experimented with platoon substitutions for years. This season a few schools have been polishing the platoon system into a fine art. Exhibit A is Holy Cross, undefeated in 14 games and, on mid-season form, the top team in the college game...
Crusaders' highly advertised star, slim, 6-ft.-1-in. Bob Cousy, was ill with grippe caused no visible slackening in pace. The platoons of 40-year-old Coach Lester Sheary carried...
...ankle hurt and he had a bad second-row starting position. At the first turn, Fred Wilt lagged along in last place. The announcer gave the time for the quarter: 60.3. That was just about what Wilt had counted on. He couldn't afford a slow pace. Because he lacked the kind of speed that allows a man to burst into a blazing "big kick" finish, Wilt held to the strategy of keeping the field stepping along so that no one else could save up for a big kick. He let out a notch, moved into second place...