After they had started out, Nicholson learned that Marshall intended to march the thirty miles at a parade-ground pace and without stopping.
By Geoffrey T. Hellman The New Yorker, October 30, 1937 P. 17 The photograph of 1938 automobiles going through their testing-ground paces which the rotogravure pages feature at this time of year cannot be conducive to safe motoring.
Shed Productions (Bad Girls, Footballers Wivess) hit the ground at pace with Waterloo Road, a new drama set amid the cartoon chaos of a failing inner-city comprehensive in the North.
Perhaps that should have been an indicator: get a feel for the ground, the pace of the pitches, the length and, had there been any of consequence, the wind.
He of yellow-hair-and-sunglasses-on-backward fame wasn't there, but his camera crew with their mountain of gear ground the pace of our ribfest down to a halt.
Slight of stature, conversing prestissimo in the high pitch of the lightest of tenors, he covers ground at a pace apt to leave a companion breathless.
So perhaps we should all just get used to a new normal (another show title on shaky ground, given the pace of cultural change) of constantly morphing show titles.
The seven-year-old's improved Flat form indicates his upward mobility and, given that he will be even bettersuited by the faster ground and stronger pace he will surely encounter at Cheltenham, he looks highly likelyto follow the hoofprints of his brilliant former stablemate Baracouda.
"Gidman bowled beautifully from ball one, which knocked Greg Smith's off-stump out of the ground - decent pace, wonderfully accurate, and finding enough movement to disconcert every batsman.
Phelps, who had thrown 98 pitches at the time, reacted angrily, throwing his glove to the ground as he paced behind the mound.
