With his hand on the instrument, the bell shrilled loudly. “Now, what?” growled Sir Julius.

While the acoustic guitar is stereotypically tied to country music, the pedal steel guitar, perhaps even more so than the acoustic guitar, represents country music by virtue of its visual appearance and more importantly its sound. […] During the 1950s and the era of the Nashville Sound, artists like Jim Reeves, Patsy Cline, Eddy Arnold, and Ray Price eschewed the hard country sounds of the steel guitar and fiddle and replaced them with softer back-up singers and string sections as they strove for a homogeneity that would appeal to a wider audience.

1962, March: Journal of Applied Physics, volume 33: E.H. Mitchell and G.I. Lykken, “Magnetelastic Behavior of Thin Ferro-magnetic Films as Function of Composition”, page 1,170

This includes even more controversial procedures: liposuctions rose to 9,295 from 2,504, and breast augmentations increased nearly sixfold, to 7,882 from 1,326.