Word: pedaling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Camp David to transcribe some of the subpoenaed tapes for Nixon's use and possible transmittal to the court. She played the recordings back on a Sony 800B portable tape recorder ?the same model used to make the President's office recordings. Since her machine had no foot pedal, she had to press various buttons to reverse and replay portions of the tapes. She found the job hard, she said, because there were loud sounds on the tapes, and the speakers' voices often overlapped. She testified that Nixon dropped in to see how she was doing. "He pushed...
...Time-Life Building in Manhattan, office temperatures have been lowered, corridor lights dimmed or extinguished, and night elevator service sharply reduced. There has also been a sudden proliferation of heavy sweaters. Outside, despite chilly fall temperatures, bicycle racks have become increasingly jammed as more and more staffers pedal to work instead of taking taxis and buses...
...became jazz. After the glorious period of Jimmie Rodgers, Lefty Frizzell, Hank Williams, Ernest Tubb--country music started to become big business. Nashville discovered the way to make its music a mass commodity in the mid-sixties--by adding background violins and Hollywood choruses to the dobros and the pedal steels...
...that their clients buy gold coins or gold-mining shares, or make similar hedges against recession. With recent jumps in the prices of precious metals-gold coins have doubled in value in the past year-many of their clients have indeed made handsome profits. But the gloomy prognosticators soft-pedal the buying opportunities in bull markets. At the very least, though, the scaremongers have done handsomely for themselves. Among them...
...tube that gives them line-of-sight access to the vocal cords, the surgeons aim the laser through the passage by means of a binocular microscope and a tiny beam of normal white light. After zeroing in on the target growth, the surgeon then steps on a foot pedal that opens a shutter on the laser and allows the infra-red laser beam to strike the diseased tissue for as little as one-tenth or as much as one-half of a second. In several "shots," the powerful laser beam literally vaporizes the tissue on which it is focused...