Word: paced
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...Pace drinks to one or fewer per hour...
...city's heart is the Suq al-Milh, or salt market. It's a good spot for buying oasis dates or acacia honey, or watching locals bargain over khat, a narcotic leaf. If haggling in other markets has left you jaded, this one's a refreshing change of pace - no one hassles you to buy here. Locals are mostly indifferent to your presence; a few are curious. Hang out at a coffee shop by the Bab Al-Yaman, the city's main gate to the south, and watch men from the tribal areas wearing curved daggers and sarongs stroll past...
...first day of preseason practice is always an eye-opener for the freshmen on the Harvard football team. In full pads, in the muggy Massachusetts heat, the rookies get a crash course in college ball. The pace is vastly swifter than in high school. Coaches bark out rapid-fire orders. The drills are complex. The running never stops...
...behalf. We have to bring the substance of the alliance up to the level it should have achieved a long time ago." Shigeru Ishiba, a Diet member, former defense minister and well-known hawk, agrees. Lawless, says Ishiba, is "genuinely frustrated at what he sees as Japan's slow pace of change. And I can't say I blame him. I am frustrated...
...were eager to play at [the Bulldogs] and control the pace,” Weiss said. “Mainly the idea was to serve them out of their system, so if they were tentative, we had them off-balance...