Word: bike
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rifle across the handlebars of his bicycle, and pedaled through a gap in the fence surrounding the Reno Municipal Airport-the same gap used by another hijacker three months ago. (Reno has applied for federal funds for a new fence, but has yet to receive them.) Ditching his bike, he slipped the rifle under his green field jacket, bulled his way into the line of passengers boarding a United Air Lines Boeing 727 bound for San Francisco, and took command of the aircraft...
...crime problem summer school students will most likely face is bicycle theft. Robert Tonis, chief of the Harvard Police, estimates that 150 bikes are stolen from Harvard students each year. A chain and lock are not foolproof deterrents. A bike chained to a parking meter or sign can be lifted over the top. Most chains can be clipped with a bolt-cutter and even if a ten-pound motorcycle chain securely attaches the front wheel to rack, theieves will often settle for the rear wheel and frame. One of the authors of this article had his Raleigh stolen while writing...
...much; no, he can't; he does: Rambo grabs a straight razor, spills one deputy's guts into his cupped hands, blinds another with a chop, out the door, bashes a motorcyclist off his bike, slews across the fields and into the mountains, gone, bare-bottom naked from the jail shower. Teasle follows...
...well U.S. youngsters can read. There was some doubt, however, that the test was really testing. Consider, for example, this question for nine-year-olds: "Complete the sentence with the words that make the most sense: The boy wanted (a) a new ball (b) under dinner (c) rode his bike (d) to the circus (e) stopped raining (f) I don't know." Some 17 % missed it. Sniffed Dr. William Furlong of the National Reading Center: "The questions may tell us more about the testers' expectations than the kids' ability to read...
...lock, which is made of two semicircular bars, hinged at one end, can be used to lock both wheels and the frame of the bike to posts or racks. Because of the design, the lock uses less metal than link chains and weighs only about 4 pounds...