Word: bicyclists
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...weird contraption with two wheels, a saddle and a steering tiller, propelled himself by pushing off with his legs and coasting. When he rode it into town, the citizens of Karlsruhe hooted and chased him off the streets. One hundred and fifty years later, the plight of the bicyclist is still dire. "People in pickup trucks throw beer cans at us," says Washington, D.C., Cyclist Ray Matthews Jr. "Motorists keep trying to push us off the road. We have to face continuous abuse and mistreatment...
...English-born Roland H. Bainton, 68, a Congregationalist minister and professor of church history, was once described as "part Puck, part St. Francis, with a mixture of Erasmus." A caricaturist who likes to whip off sketches of Reinhold Niebuhr or Paul Tillich, he is also an indefatigable bicyclist whose latest two-wheeler boasts 18 gears. Few other Yale divines have done so much to spread the word in human tones. In 42 years at Yale, Bainton published 19 books (total sales: 1,500,000), notably Church of Our Fathers and Here I Stand, probably the most readable biography of Martin...
Cambridge police reported yesterday that they do not know the identity of the bicyclist who ran into and injured Margaret E. deBoers '65 Thursday. Cambridge City Hospital reported her condition as fair yesterday afternoon...
...Radcliffe freshman was injured by a hit-and-run bicyclist yesterday morning in front of Lowell Lecture Hall...
Pedal Extremity. In Manhattan, chasing a suspicious-looking bicyclist, Detective John Keeney saw his quarry slipping away as the patrol car jammed in traffic, grabbed a delivery boy's bicycle, nabbed Bicycle Thief Camelio Vanterpool 35 blocks from where the chase started...