Word: paceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toughest obstacle to Núñez' success: Cuba's sugar prosperity. Observers in Havana thought he had a fair chance if he could keep up his killing pace...
...tropics. Nor were there any new drugs for the most widespread worm disease, hookworm, which afflicts 457,000,000 people in the world, including 1,000,000 in the U.S. There is, said Dr. Stoll, no ideal drug for any worm disease, and meanwhile the worm population is keeping pace with the human...
...secret siege . . . There have been a couple of epidemics of dysentery. People have clogged the cancer clinic with strange swellings. Hospital corridors are full of trichinosis patients lying bloated and helpless. Some of the smaller plants have shut down. And the big ones have slowed to a production pace worse than a shutdown. This, because of a new kind of common cold which leaves its victims weak and shaky for a month-when it doesn't flash into fatal pneumonia...
...life (slogan: "be hip, be sharp, be bop!"). Its feverish practitioners like to wear berets, goatees and green-tinted horn-rimmed glasses, talk about their "interesting new sounds." The high priest is Dizzy, 30, a South Carolina boy whose rapid-fire, scattershot talk has about the same pace-and content-as his music. Whether he, an obscure Manhattan pianist named Thelonius Monk or Saxophonist Charlie ("Yardbird") Parker invented bebop is a matter of learned dispute among beboppers...
Slowdown. The clock that keeps running in Arcaro's head really rang the bell four years ago in the Manhattan Handicap. Arcaro was on Devil Diver, a speed horse. Everybody, including the other jockeys, expected him to set a fast pace, and then collapse long before the mile and a half had been run. Arcaro knew how slow he was going; the others didn't and hung back too. The time for the first mile was incredibly slow. When Arcaro finally let Devil Diver run, he outsprinted the others, winning by 1½ lengths...