Word: pedaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cool February evening in 1888 Scottish Veterinarian John Boyd Dunlop watched his small son pedal a tricycle along a Belfast street and into history. For the rear wheels of the boy's tricycle Dunlop had fashioned hollow rubber-and-canvas tubes pumped full of air-two of the world's earliest pneumatic tires. Within two years pneumatic tires were the rage of Britain's cyclists, and Dunlop was busy trying to fill the demand...
...Pedal Pusher. In Detroit, Edwin Arnold got a court order restraining his wife Bessie Mae after he testified that she had beaten him with her slipper, made him scrub floors, forced him to take off his shoes whenever he entered the house...
...other three components of the film, Dinah Shore's singing takes second by default; but her acting, as a saucy WAC, is indifferent at best. Served up by Dana Andrews and Virginia Mayo, the romance is undigestible and the buffet of Goldwyn girls clad in turquoise and pink pedal-pushers is not the most authentic picture of WAC regiments...
Each deals with fundamental conflicts between athletics and education. Stokes has considered the entire athletic picture and in so doing has been forced to soft pedal the principles of the Ivy League, which has become an ivory tower for athletic amateurism. Yet for the very reason that he deals with the sports world at large, his proposals cannot be called poppycock. Problems he considers are problems the new league has already defined and is in the process of solving...
...example, Eisenhower decided to soft-pedal Congress instead of forcing his program through. But by this decision he failed to represent the urban millions of the nation who, badly under-represented in Congress have traditionally looked to the President as their real representative. This failure is writ large across the many items of his own program labeled "unfinished business." Revision of the McCarran Immigration Act, for which scores of urban nationality groups had petitioned, and which the President had pledged, never came about. The promised Taft-Hartley amendments were lost somewhere in the White House political shuffle...