Word: paced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quips of Comedian Bob Hope, returned the jaunty wave of Negro Songstress Pearl Bailey. When it was time to leave, he took a few strides in the wrong direction, spun, and walked from the room so rapidly that the Secret Service men had to scurry to keep pace. As he entered his car he turned and asked if anyone wanted a ride. There were no takers. By 11 p.m. the President was back in the White House...
Said the majority decision: "There is now no rational basis upon which the separate but equal doctrine can be validly applied to public carrier transportation." But the court, taking its pace from the Supreme Court's doctrine of "deliberate speed," postponed any order to stop bus-line segregation, and explained that when one came it would apply only to Montgomery...
...makes is not undone by some future wave of passion, such as eventually drove its troops first from Egypt itself and then from the Suez Canal. This is where NATO (which is seeking new tasks for itself) might usefully step in. If Greece can be satisfied by the pace and genuineness of self-determination, if Britain can in return secure its Cyprus base, then their agreement might well be guaranteed by NATO, thereby being underwritten not only by the interested parties (Britain, Greece and Turkey), but by the U.S. and the eleven other NATO powers...
...beat the Babe? This is certainly a season for shattering sports records, and homer-happy club owners have done their bit by pulling in their outfield fences. With such help and such a hot start (at week's end nine games ahead of Ruth's 1927 pace), Mantle looks like the man to cross the 60-homer barrier and set the sentimentalists to keening John Kieran's farewell...
...applications. Burns helped devise two of the profession's widely used yardsticks while director of the august National Bureau of Economic Research (1945-53). From 800 statistical series on the U.S. economy, Burns's staff picked 21 key indicators, business failures, durable-goods orders, etc. that faithfully pace business shifts. Under Burns the National Bureau also perfected the "diffusion index," a cross section of indicators used to gauge the strength of an upswing or downturn...