Word: pacing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more on Sunday. That made his score for the season 293, nine more than Steve Brooks. Longden did not have the power of an Eddie Arcaro (who sometimes looks as if he gets off and lifts a horse across the finish) or Earl Sande's rare judgment of pace. But people liked to bet on his horses because they got a run for their money. Besides a high reputation for honesty, he has a knack of getting a horse off fast-then dares anybody to catch him. A good percentage of his wins were scored on obscure tracks long...
Quality Sprinters are rarely a scarce commodity around the blockhouse basement; because they condition faster from football fan fatigue. But this year the short distance staff is not quite up to the pace of the rest...
...cheerily to some Tory friends: "We should really have more of these parties." This remark was widely repeated. "The bahstud," muttered one of those who knew that Attlee's government had carried its austerity drive deep into the wedding festivities, by shortening the length and speeding up the pace of the procession, by asking workers to stay at their jobs, and even, at first, by refusing to put the Household Cavalry in full dress. When the Cavalry turned up in full dress in Sir Alexander Korda's movie An Ideal Husband, released a week before the wedding...
...streets outside, where scores of newsmen covered the processional route. Buffeted by the surging crowds along the Mall, Middleton was lifted up by their surging spirit, as "a river of scarlet and gold and steel flowed through the shabby, cheerful masses of Britain. . . . For a brief moment the pace of the strident, terrible 20th Century was slowed to the trot of cavalry horses...
...mirror spent the night in the little ranch town of Escondido, which was all agog at the honor. At 5 a.m. it began the last lap, up the twisting road to mile-high Mt. Palomar. The pace slowed to a crawl as two trucks pushed the trailer...