Word: pedals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Incidentally, the winner of the pedal-pusher's race will also receive a new bicycle...
...kiss is first prize in the traditional pedal race from Harvard to Wellesley. Eighteen grueling miles will be furiously covered by cyclists eagerly viewing for the grand prize. It is expected that the time that an automobile takes to make the trip (40 minutes) will be cut nearly in half...
That is why it is so disturbing that, just as the peace through strength policy is beginning to pay dividends, there has been a growing desire to soft-pedal this whole policy. Scarcely two days after the Communists gave in on the prisoner issue, Congressmen began to talk up large cuts in the defense budget. At least two billion seems sure to go, with more slices in the offing. Secretary Dulles has quietly scuttled the Point Four program. The NATO countries seem to have lost the will to agree, they are certainly not meeting their manpower quotas...
...Pedal Tricycles Sir: . . . Let me join the many who will notice this sentence: "Then he and curly-headed Barbara Anne peddled their tricycles over a stretch of grass made slightly mangy lately by grandfather golfing divots [TIME, March 23]." TIME forgot to say whether the Eisenhower tykes finally sold their trikes. And what will they be pushing next week? WENDELL SMITH Santa Monica, Calif...
...scenes and characters, its anonymous, quick intensities, and it keeps faith with its material. But about much of it there seems something straggling and merely approximate: it lacks form, it needs more expressive detail, more evocative language. And it is coarsened by Joshua Logan's direction, which often pedal-thumps the sex and placards the humor and pathos...