Word: pacing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...retired with a bad nose. As No. 1 boxer-in-waiting, Sugar Ray had only to beat fellow Negro Tommy Bell to get the title. Sugar Ray's good friend Joe Louis dropped into his dressing room in Madison Square Garden with some advice: "You got to pace yourself, because you can get awful tired in 15 rounds." A few minutes later, 15,670 fans saw Sugar Ray Robinson, a 5-to-1 favorite, knocked to the floor in the second round...
...Pacific web coverage area. ... On a 30-day breakdown, it gives about 3,000 calls daily . . . on the entire Pacific Coast. That's 108 calls per half-hour period. The current report shows 35% average sets in use. That means less than 40 respondents giving the Pacific Coast pace for half-hour listening! ... On that small a sample, Mr. Hooper can get odds from any professional gambler that ... he will eventually hit a night when not one single respondent is listening to Fibber & Molly or Bob Hope...
...Mostly he spoke extemporaneously (65 minutes). Occasionally he slipped on horn-rimmed spectacles, read a note. I have never seen an orator who held an audience in the palm of his hand so easily and confidently. Soekarno would speak slowly, then at machine-gun pace. Some times he shook a finger at the audience, again he stood arms akimbo and bit off his words. The fascinated audience laughed with him, grew serious with him, sympathized with him when he said he had just come from a sickbed and had to wear a light raincoat (which he took off after half...
Less Height, More Fight. By last week, with about 800 U.S. college teams warming up, it was clear that the quality of play was already far above last year's. More attention was being paid to defense, less to pell-mell pace and the hurried ball-slinging that passed for finesse during wartime. The day of the seven-foot goons seemed to be passing. The brightest basketeers were players of medium height (in basketball lingo: 6 ft. 3 in.) and high skill...
...football's best one-man team folded up last week. For eleven games, with little help or relief, 172-lb. Bill Dudley of the Pittsburgh Steelers had run around, under & over big 225-pounders. He was not fast, either, but with his jitterbug's change-of-pace, he became the National League's No. 1 ground-gainer (604 yards). He was also the team's sparkplug, did the kicking and passing, led the league in pass interceptions (10). Said he, retiring from pro football after ripping a cartilage in his knee: "I know my limitations...