Word: pedals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, Mossadegh was very much in control, the Shah had ordered the prosecution to soft-pedal its language because Mossadegh's huge public following was showing its sympathies, and the government was sorry that it had ever decided to try the old man publicly. Mossadegh vowed to take a whole month in his rebuttal; wearily the court decided to sit once a day instead of twice. In the end, went the gag around Teheran, the five military judges will throw themselves on the mercy of the defendant...
...Press Club, the former General Motors president told of a U.S. Senator who needed a new car. The Senator consulted a General Motors executive, who suggested getting a car with an automatic transmission. Said the Senator: "Well, maybe that would be all right, but when there is no clutch pedal, where do I put my left foot?" Replied the General Motors executive: "Put it in your mouth like my former boss does...
Ulmer Turner, a Chicago news analyst with an expensive hobby, has been hearing some strange sounds lately out of Radio Moscow. Soviet propaganda. Turner reports, is getting a soft pedal. The time devoted to Russian music (especially Rimsky-Korsakov) is increasing, the announcers are sprouting Oxford accents, and a Big Ben touch has been added: "We pause now while you hear the clock in the Kremlin strike midnight." Turner does not claim to know the significance of these facts, but it is just the kind of information he has long wanted to give his listeners first hand. Last week...
Choreographer Michael Kidd has designed some charming and witty dance routines. Hotspots: a clever production number, kidding the Mickey Spillane type of literary hopheadiness; a moony little foxtrot through Central Park; a raucous hit of pedal jabberwocky by Astaire at a 42nd Street shoeshine stand...
...older, U.S. cars. Their high-geared steering, a feature of road racers, is as hard as a truck's but very responsive, and they are famed for the way they hold the road. Each model has such features as self-lubrication (at the press of a foot pedal), independent suspension of all four wheels, handwork on such parts as polished wood dashboards and door frames. Daimler-Benz sticks stubbornly to heavy, solid steel, though many other makers have switched to lighter frames. Says Chief Designer Fritz Nallinger: "Mercedes is built to last...