Word: paceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about 17 days in a regular cycle, the colony moves its bivouac every night. Toward dusk one of the raiding columns loses its martial excitement, slows its pace. Then the raiders fall into a steady, plodding lockstep. At the far end of the column, up to 200 yards long, they clot together in a tight, solid mass. The news of the move spreads back to the previous bivouac. As raiders come in from forays in other directions, they turn and follow the plodding column...
Last week, Nelson burned up the course in his first two matches. In the third he polished off Herman Barren with a nine under par net for 34 holes. But Nelson could not hold the pace. He battled Ed ("Porky") Oliver down to the last green in the quarterfinals, then conceded the decisive 8-inch putt. Newsmen expected to hear him complain of his aching back. Instead he said simply: "My back never bothered me at all. I lost to a man who shot better golf...
Since the inauguration two months ago Eva de Perón had set a pace for which only Eleanor Roosevelt had set modern precedent. At her office on the fourth floor of the Central Post Office Building she received trade union delegations before her neighbors along the swank Avenida Alvear were out of bed. Nurses and teachers, quick to spot a militant feminist, mayors and cabinet ministers eager for Evita's views on public issues, jammed her waiting rooms...
...Evita could hold her grueling pace, she might start a revolution deeper than any her husband might lead...
...Feller of the Cleveland Indians had already won 21 (to 7 losses). He also had an ambitious eye on Rube Waddell's season strikeout record of 347. At week's end Bobby had struck out 262. If he failed to keep the pace, it would be partly his fault: Bobby, who decides which days he will pitch, tends to overwork himself...