Word: paces
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...psychological Trauma of a pre-adolescent school girl. Written in a style frankly derived from Faulkner, "In Dust" successfully avoids mimicry and artiness, two near constant companions of this style. An abundance of poetic images clogs the opening of the piece, but thereafter it flows smoothly and skillfully. The pace is sustained, and the denouement carried off with aplomb...
...first day of the Kimpo airlift Tunner's newly formed Combat Cargo Command delivered 280 air-cargo specialists and 215 tons of supplies-bombs, ammunition, high-octane gasoline, equipment for stepping up the pace of the new job. In its first four days, the Kimpo airlift landed 1,337 tons of supplies and 604 passengers. On return flights it evacuated 313 wounded to Japan...
...three armed services were stepping up their cadence to meet the quickening pace of U.S. mobilization (see The Nation). Items...
Something was wrong with the way the Korean war was going. Since the commanders and troops had done well with what they had, it was not hard to trace the fault line back to the men who prescribe the pace of U.S. mobilization. The pace desperately needed to be stepped...
...pace of mobilization required by present U.S. obligations would have to be several times the pace at which Washington was ambling last week...