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Word: pedalers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opposition Deputy. "It's true that we have friendly relations," boomed Schmidt, "but it would be a great mistake to interpret this, as the French press has done, as if it were a tandem. A tandem, the way I understand it, is a bicycle on which two pedal but only one steers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: France & Germany: Two in Tandem | 10/7/1974 | See Source »

...best composer to have his works played to death in the '70s: Scott Joplin (The Sting, The Red Back Book, piano rolls, E. Power Biggs' pedal-harpsichord arrangements, ad infinitum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Making the Most of The Best | 9/9/1974 | See Source »

...Purple Sage and Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen start things off Friday in what is probably the best concert of the weekend. The New Riders, a Grateful Dead spinoff group named after a Zane Gray Western novel, play laid-back countrified rock with lots of pedal steel guitar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSIC | 8/16/1974 | See Source »

...trip between Rocky Mount, N.C., and Knoxville, Tenn., and somehow strayed up to Boston. They play exclusively country stuff, ranging from Hank Williams laments to Earl Scruggs bluegrass, and start the weekend shift at King's Thursday night. John Lincoln has almost perfected his twang and his fiddler and pedal steel guitarist are especially good. Hard to dance to, but good enough to bear close listening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSIC | 7/23/1974 | See Source »

...mechanical devices, the flywheel works on a simple principle: a rapidly spinning weighted wheel serves as a highly useful reservoir of energy. It has been put to work in a wide variety of ways. As a potter's wheel, it smooths out motion between movements of the foot pedal. On the crankshaft of an auto engine, it prevents uneven rotation that would result from piston strokes. But it is only recently that engineers looking for less polluting means of transportation have begun to give serious thought to tapping the whirling flywheel's energy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Big Wheel | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

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