Word: pedal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Most of the world still revels in its final hours of blissful sleep. But on deserted Cambridge-area roads, approximately 30 Harvard cyclists ready themselves for two hours of pedal-pumping euphoria...
...number of ways, including petering out. Quebeckers may not want to risk a leap into the dark of independence during a recession. (Even a Quebecois economist admits that sovereignty would involve transitional costs of as much as 10% of Quebec's GDP -- a prospect that separatist politicians carefully soft-pedal.) It is possible, finally, that some deal will be struck either by Mulroney or even by western politicians willing to give Quebec its head in return for a redesigned federal government...
Pontiac SSEi. The supercharged 3.8-liter V-6 engine in this sports sedan -- a member of the Bonneville family -- is rated at 205 h.p., a 21% boost over its brethren. There's no hesitation when a driver puts the pedal to the floor, and little hesitation in Pontiac showrooms either. The base price is an alluring $18,599; sales for all Bonnevilles are up 40% from a year...
...mainland, Yamashita's bicycle-riding invaders needed only 70 days to pedal and hack their way 600 miles down the Malayan peninsula. All through the night of Jan. 31, British troops marched out of Malaya and across the 1,100- ft.-long causeway to the island fortress of Singapore. The last 90 to leave were Argyll Scots marching to their bagpipers skirling Hielan' ((Highland)) Laddie. The British then blew a 70-ft. gap in the causeway -- but the inrushing waters proved to be only 4 ft. deep at low tide...
Every day, bicyclists crash into pedestrians in Harvard Square, then pedal on without apology. Bicyclists whiz through gates and around corners in Harvard Yard, as if the possibility that someone might be passing by is nonexistent...