Word: pedaling
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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...
...silhouette, assembled on deck while the officers poked into every recess of three destroyers (the U.S.S. Hollister, Isbell and Knox). In a steel locker near the after stack of the Hollister, an officer found the stowaway: blue-eyed, barefooted, 24-year-old Elizabeth D. Talk, rigged in pale blue pedal pushers and a well-filled blouse...
...South Viet Nam who are deemed disturbing to Franco-American harmony. The French agreed to pull the sects of warlords and gangsters off Diem, thereby indicating unblushingly that they have been manipulating them from the start. The French wanted the U.S. to get its man Diem to soft-pedal his anti-French line, to which the U.S. replied that Diem was not its stooge, nor did it want...
...There are Orlon sweaters, dresses in Dacron, nylon and other wonder fabrics in every color. There are dresses of wispy silk and tough denims, terry-cloth shirts, and shorts in everything from calfskin to velvet. Toreador pants, once worn only by the brave (and beautiful), are as common as pedal-pushers and Levi's. One big 1955 craze: sweater-like cotton knits in everything from beach robes to low-priced cocktail dresses...