Word: pedaling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually, many Southern newsmen took it for granted that their papers would soft-pedal such an emotionally explosive issue. But the surprise is that so many editors are now willing to stick their necks out. It is only about ten years since newspapers in the South began in any numbers to break such old habits as depicting the Negro only as a criminal or a minstrel end man, and learning such new ones as calling him "Mr."-a practice still far from universal. Only in the same short period have Southern papers started to drop the tag "Negro" in stories...
Disagreeing with the professor, Nelson Cole, editor of the University of Alabama's "Crimson and White," told the CRIMSON that the NAACP had played Miss Lucy for too much sensational publicity. "If Miss Lucy's attorney had taken a softer pedal, some of the student resentment might have been avoided," Cole stated...
...Crimson backs ran with energy, sistence when tackled. They didn't want to stop. And despite the rice-paddy conditions, the backs, particularly Matt Botsford, cut with amazing sureness. Determination and pedal agility seem to be attributes of other members of Mr. Jordan's team, as end Bob Morrison demonstrated on his run for the second Crimson tally, squirming and fighting his way clear for the score after taking Botsford's pass...
Bermuda shorts and pedal pushers jauntily navigate what was once a grassy lane, called Tory Row, now Brattle Street. Tory Row in the seventeenth century was the home of many of Massachusetts' foremost leaders, members of the General Court and men of that ilk. In the eighteenth century, however, the grandsons of these leaders came to grief, for their vested interest in the Crown government estranged them from their more patriotic brothers...
...Pedal Pusher. In Atlanta, during a test for a driver's license, Mrs. Maude Pierce, 42, stepped on the gas instead of the brake, cracked into a utility pole, smashed into a parked car, demolished her own, sent the test supervisor to the hospital with head and hip injuries...