Word: paced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity's offense has not kept pace with its defensive performance. The varsity ranks only fifth in team offense, having amassed 258.3 yards a game, and does not have a single representative among the top five in scoring, total offense, or passing...
...late for a dinner date with his wife Charlotte, even then waiting for him in front of the Durant Hotel, in nearby Flint. Chamberlain leaped into his red-white-and-blue Chevrolet station wagon, which he uses along with his trailer, and sped toward Flint at 60 m.p.h. His pace had been exhausting, but Chuck Chamberlain seemed to thrive on it, and his words tumbled out in a turmoil of enthusiasm...
...huge population board in Washington's Department of Commerce lobby clicked away in its steady, scientifically programed pace, last week hit a U.S. population milestone: 175 million. Next outstanding marker: 200 million...
...chill of lurking dread is no longer so chilly, the pace no longer so breathless as in Greene's earlier thrillers. He cannot resist slipping in a cruel, pointless caricature of a dumb U.S. businessman, or an unlikely scene in a top-secret conference, at which Wormold's secretary sprays the green baize with Greene bitterness. Such interludes damage the "entertainment," but they cannot really spoil the unique formula of suspense plus...
...Manners. She spent part of her childhood in the "celestial light" of Bedfordshire, where "the clouds cast no shadows," and at her grandfather's Belvoir Castle. The plumbing there was not much, but there were "watermen" to bring hot and cold water along miles of corridors, watchmen to pace the battlements by night, and a "gong man," who served as a perambulating clock. There was even an ancient serving-maid who was born before the Battle of Waterloo. (She was always shown to visitors...