Word: tempo
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...Tempo...
There is general dissatisfaction with the pace of life, which they call "the tempo...
...Complaints concerning the 'tempo' involved high work norms, overtime (without pay, usually, for white-collar workers), long and difficult hours spent in transit to and from work, compulsory attendance at meetings outside regular working hours, precious time spent queuing up for scarce goods and strict laws of labor discipline which made one liable to strong penalties for being late to work...
Little Man in Chinatown (Jim Lowe; Dot). The tempo is high, the ricks are ticking and the song is a shaggy Pekinese. The teaser: "In case you wonder what this story is. here it is. here it is. here...
...when Authoress Metalious is not all flustered by sex, she captures a real sense of the tempo, texture and tensions in the social anatomy of a small town. Her ear for local speech is unflinching down to the last four-letter word, and her characters have a sort of rawboned vitality that may produce low animal moans in many a critic's throat...