Word: pedaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact begun to adopt this strategy. Sheehan wrote recently from Saigon that "American diplomats and military commanders here are...not pinning any hopes on Geneva. They are, instead, preparing for a long war." A recent article in Newsweek reported that "suddenly" it has become "fashionable" to "soft-pedal talk of a diplomatic settlement...
World of Words. Moyers' first assignment was to address 100,000 envelopes with a pedal-powered machine; he started at 7 p.m., finished at 9 o'clock the next morning. That summer he got to feeling that Johnson did not even know he existed. At the end of his Washington stint, Lyndon summoned Moyers to his baronial office, urged him to transfer to the University of Texas, and offered him a $300-a-month job with KTBC, Lady Bird's Austin television station...
...naive to soft-pedal the population explosion as "more myth than menace." "A modest growth of 18% per decade, one-half what it was 100 years ago," is not so benign. Eighteen percent of present population is 34.7 million; 36% of 1865 population is only 12.6 million...
...overhauled, explaining: "It's still too young and hasn't been broken in yet." For the Paris concert, Tallone scoured the city for days to find a substitute piano, then spent 20 hours preparing it for the master's hands-and feet. "The pedals are like my lungs," explains Michelangeli. "Three notes with the right pedal work can become another world...
...Pedal's to the floor, hear...