Word: pedaler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...house work was 'Six Preludes', by James Romeo, Dunster's house music tutor. Romeo wrote these preludes as simpler pieces for his piano students at Harvard, but in their simplicity they display the composer's talent for the pleasingly lyrical. The first of the preludes uses the sustain pedal to allow harp-like tones to reverberate within the piano, creating a sort of water-color of sound reminiscent of Debussy...
...rainbow banners, moved in computers and charts and all the weird paraphernalia of political crusaders. They are there now plotting a takeover of the Government from that little niche of America where a screen door slamming or a dog barking still echoes distinctly for blocks, and where kids still pedal furiously and bank down the old flight path...
...driving the Harvard Shuttle Bus which malfunctioned on July 31, 1987, en route to Hudson, New Hampshire. The following is what occurred. As we were leaving the city, I began to notice an increasing heat on my right foot which was pressing down the gas pedal. At first I thought there was a malfunction in the foot heater, which all Shuttle Buses have, and which would have accounted for the heat in that one particular location. The heat increased to the point where I decided to pull the bus off the road and check it because it was becoming...
...rising toll of accidents has seriously hurt the company's U.S. image: sales in 1986 fell almost 20% from the previous year, to 59,797 autos. To prevent more accidents, Audi will equip the recalled cars with a shift-lock device, which forces the driver to press the brake pedal while shifting out of park. But many Audi owners maintain that the shift lock will not solve the problem. They want the company to buy back the accident-plagued autos or make major changes in the car's design...
...clock on a Thursday evening, the members of the choir are seated in folding chairs in their rehearsal room at Christ and Holy Trinity Church, Westport, Conn. Bruce Barber, choir director, stoops at the piano with one foot on the sustain pedal and his eyes on his singers. He is leading them through a 300-year-old hymn, and he is not happy...