Word: paces
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...traditionally is based on a different style and on shorter and more formal training periods than is American collegiate rowing. Rather than row steadily and then pull to a fast finish, British crews tend to start with a "rush" and try to exhaust their opponents with a fast opening pace...
...game progressed and the play became more ragged, the opposing coaches began to pace the sidelines. Ekpebu was the only forward on either team to get even a close shot. Then came the shot that brought the fans out of their seats, and McCall was a hero...
Fitzgerald's importance was demonstrated against Penn and Columbia last Friday when he turned in a fine secondplace performance to pace the varsity's victory...
...signs of urgency about the U.S.'s space lag. The President, his advisers reported, was convinced that the U.S. space effort must be kept "within reason." Vice President Richard Nixon assured a press conference that the nation's space effort was "moving along at a reasonably good pace." Herbert F. York, the Defense Department's director of research and engineering, dismissed the Soviet lead in the space race as "more a question of acute embarrassment than national survival." Engineer T. Keith Glennan, head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, called for a "sane course"-which...
...Flanders' animated patter. And winning as his patter can be-not least his account of the London theater season of 1546-it might prove wearisome were it not for his superb technique: the lines he throws away, the jokes he holds his nose at, the changes of pace, the changes of face, the alarming sounds in his throat. If Flanders' way is to be sinuous, mocking and charming, Swann's way is to play everything straight, then suddenly seem straight out of Edward Lear. He is as repressed and colorless as a don, then as vaultingly...