Word: paced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...behind in its antisubmarine development. Although beautiful, new supersonic jet aircraft were on the drawing boards and at test centers, the Navy's jet design lagged behind the Air Force, and behind the more realistic threats of Russian aircraft. The Bureau of Ships had not kept pace: for its carriers, the Navy was forced to take over British inventions-the steam catapult, the angled deck, the mirror landing system...
...sculptors and painters moved into the field, drawn by the new and freer techniques, they helped to accelerate the experimental pace. Among the early innovators : Painter John Ferren, who produced colored prints on plaster instead of paper; Boris Margo, who developed a new, easy-to-work print surface of sheet cellophane dissolved in acetone; Adja Junkers, who blew woodcuts up to mural-sized proportions with his 14-ft.-long triptych in which the center panel alone used eight blocks and 56 colors. Sculptor Leon ard Baskin's Man of Peace, 1953 (see cut), displayed at Brooklyn's prizewinners...
...assassin in a velvet-curtained box at Albert Hall, a final showdown in the gilt-and-mirror splendor of a foreign embassy. Hitchcock alternates his chills with comedy, as when Jimmy is bitten by a stuffed tiger, and gets deft performances from both Stewart and Doris Day. But the pace grows laggard toward the end. Instead of using music as a background for action, Hitchcock moves it up front, and moviegoers must sit still not only for the dismayingly long cantata but also for special numbers sung by Doris Day. The chief drawback of these musical stage-waits is that...
...didn't think I had a faster-than-four-minute mile in me," said Bailey, when he caught his breath. But he had. His time was 3:58.6, the first under-four-minute mile run in the U.S. A long pace back, John Landy was clocked in 3:58.7. Irish Ron Delany finished third in a creditable 4:05.5. "The four-minute mile won't be exclusive any more," said Bailey. "There'll be guys all over the world who knew what I did before [his best previous time: 4:05.6] and saw what I did today...
...Sanger's) will take on Miami's Burdine's Inc., Florida's biggest (1955 sales: $42.8 million) department store, with four units in the state. In year ended Jan. 28, 1956, Federated, with sales of $537.7 million, was only $44 million behind Allied's pace, but now, with Burdine's, it is running almost even...