Word: pedaling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...average speed of 42 miles per hour over the tricky course, save gas by skillful driving (e.g.,-a gentle, steady accelerator pressure), use no trick gadgets. One driver, wearing neither shoes nor socks, had sandpapered the soles of his feet to keep a sensitive control of the gas pedal; others wore special footwear, built up on the right side to give delicate horizontal pressure on the gas pedal instead of a strong downward thrust...
...Manhattan's plush Versailles, Nightclub Satirist Kay Thompson solved a problem to her own fans' satisfaction. She likes to do her act in tailored slacks; some of her admirers demanded that she wear a dress. Her compromise solution: a new outfit she described as "pedal pushers surrounded by a split skirt...
...windows, covering three full city blocks. From its-vast collection of books and reports, U.S. citizens can learn how to run a pants cleaning shop or whether there is a market for hookah pipes in Nicaragua. Its archives contain patents for ornithopters (beating-wing flying machines) and a "pedal calorenticator" (a flexible rubber tube reaching from the nostrils to the inside of the shoes; the wearer can warm his feet merely by exhaling). In its basement is an aquarium left over from the Bureau of Fisheries (now under the Department of the Interior) where catfish, a man-eating piranha...