Word: paced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President went, with his leathery grin, his vigorous talk, he was met by friendly people. "Well hi ... Why, hello there . . . Yes thanks, I'm feeling fine." He kept up a constant chatter as he waved to big crowds in city streets and small crowds at country crossroads, changing pace to drop his upraised hands and bow gently from the waist to a group of nuns, or stopping solemnly to salute the colors of a high-school band. Nowhere was there a hail-the-conquering-hero quality to the welcome; everywhere the setting was warm, relaxed, assured, befitting the national...
...Wyler's inquisitive camera, peering through all the flora and fauna into the hurt eyes of the cuckolded husband (John Mills, making his American TV debut), or capturing the guilt written across the sallow face of the barrister (Michael Rennie) who helps Leslie beat the rap. With pace and polish, Wyler distilled all the steamy Maugham atmosphere and dry rot of colonial life, brought believability to some papier-mache archetypes. Oldtime Cinemactress Anna May Wong, as the blackmailing mistress of the murdered cad, peered with good effect through the inevitable beaded curtains...
...from it. The child is eager to learn, but at school she was being forced to go slower than she wanted to." At home, working with her mother under her father's supervision, Steffanie has already finished most of her second-grade work. "She can set her own pace," says Cheney. "There is no pushing, but at the same time she is not being held back...
Wary of Brew's spectacular finishing kick, and, therefore, bent on opening up as big a lead as possible before the stretch, Reider changed his usual tactics by jumping into quick lead at the outset of the race, setting a brisk pace. Brew moved up into second place five yards behind Reider at the first big hill, as both began to pull away from the rest of the field...
...lake turn, however, Reider opened up a lead of nearly 30 yeards on his archrival, a lead which he maintained until the second lake turn, when his killing pace began to tell on the tiring Brew. By the three-mile mark, Reider had increased his lead to over 100 yards. At this point, Brew led third man Dave Norris by nearly 20 yards, as Crimson runners Norris, Jim Schlaeppi, Dave McLean, and Dick Wharton fought for third position...