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Word: pedals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this follows the actual trial is for the official records to say. But there is a sense of forcing the high notes and of holding them too long. That trials are proverbially good theater is no accident: theater minds and legal minds equally highlight and soft-pedal to a purpose, equally employ shock and diversionary tactics. And they can equally breed doubts while scoring points: often vivid, Levitt's play does not really satisfy as a whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play on Broadway, Jan. 11, 1960 | 1/11/1960 | See Source »

Mayday. In Lausanne, Switzerland, alarmed by the number of attacks on taxi drivers, police considered a special pedal for cabs that, when pressed, locks all the doors except the driver's, stops the motor, releases a capsule of suffocating gas, blows the horn, starts a flashing light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 4, 1960 | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

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