Word: paced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Offal. When the conference chair man rang a bell to signal the end of his speech, Hailsham ebulliently seized it, crying: "Ring it much more loudly! Let it ring for victory!" As 4,000 Tories came to their feet cheering, he slowed it to a solemn pace, saying: "Toll it solemnly...
...until World War II, the hard core of American science was to a large extent the individual scholar working alone and voluntarily sharing his work with like-minded people. But then came radar and the atomic bomb and the "need to do something about these quickly. The pace was speeded up, and every available young man was thrown into the effort. As many of these young men were not yet in a position to work freely on their own, and as much of the effort was of a military and secret nature, scientific tasks were divided up by the [scientific...
...great, green-grown rain forests of Middle America, archaeologists are uncovering at a laborious pace the remains of the incredible art and culture of Indians who lived as long as 3,000 years ago. They have found, buried beneath the brush and muck of the jungle, skillfully formed stone sculpture done by Olmecs perhaps a millennium before Christ. Even more remarkable was the civilization of the Mayans, whose artists, sculptors and priest-scientists of some 1,500 years ago left behind marvels of work and thought. so advanced that they have been called the Greeks of America...
...known crusading student weekly, Po Prostu (Plain Speaking). Po Prostu had zealously supported Gomulka in his stand against Nikita Khrushchev and the rest of Poland's Soviet overlords last year, but since then had lent its own voice to the rising crescendo of intellectual discontent with the slow pace of Gomulka's democratization...
...book may be vulgar and shameless, but it is also a beautifully written, classic portrayal of the romantic temperament. Two of a kind, Caitlin and Dylan Thomas reveal the tragic flaw in that temperament. To intensify every passing moment of life, the romantic must live at an ever-quickening pace. Moving from excess to excess, he must demand more and more of himself. Pursued frantically enough, this course can result only in madness or death; persistent echoes of both ring through this book. Not since Dylan Thomas himself has there been anyone who could have written it - with...