Word: tempoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opposition develops, the tempo of the campaign will increase as the election draws near. So far these who opposed the plan in 1938 have remained silent, though there seems to be some quiet attempts at sabotage...
WASHINGTON--The nation today stepped up the tempo of preparations for the first peacetime draft of manpower in American history...
Last week the tempo of life in the U. S. was stepped up. In all fields except Congress, where the draft was still debated, there was action and lots of it-political, diplomatic, military. There was action in Elwood, Ind., where Wendell Willkie accepted the Republican nomination for President. There was action in Washington. Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace resigned to campaign for the Vice-Presidency. There were resignations, new appointments. And there was the action of President Roosevelt, who announced at his press conference that he had sent observers to watch the Nazi attack on Great Britain, and that...
...Lancet had no data indicating whether drunkenness increased with the recent tempo of the war. It wondered "whether, in fact, we are becoming a tight little island in both senses of the word...
...Once Ellsworth saw an old male porcupine who was shuffling around, "emotionally upset." Suddenly he hunched up his back, drew his forefeet close to his body, stood on his hind legs and thumped his feet, clicking his teeth in fast tempo like castanets...