Word: bike
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just ten miles west, until late the next afternoon. A government employee who had been motorcycling to Nios from Wum first discovered the disaster. When he came upon a dead antelope, he thought he had had a stroke of luck, and happily strapped the animal to his bike. But when he got closer to Nios, the impact of what had happened struck him as he saw more and more bodies of people and animals. Fighting back dizziness, he returned to Wum. Late that day, his ghastly report finally reached Yaounde...
...counting cases of jock straps in a warehouse, I heard this gem. Next to a story about three nuns and an exercise bike, it is the worst attempt at humor I have ever seen. It goes as follows...
...beaches and the snowy slopes of the Sierra Nevada. At 14, he took to cycling to build up his legs for skiing. But that winter it did not snow, and so an obsession was born. In the U.S., cycling is what kids do after Santa Claus brings them a bike and before they get their driver's license. Few of them are aware that the sport's greatest heroes race in teams and can make as much as a star quarterback. A subtle, rolling chess game in which teammates devise strategies to wear out and hold back opponents, share...
Avid bicyclists enter the Des Moines Register's Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa, better known as "Ragbrai," to enjoy Iowa hospitality, 10 cents lemonade, and the excellent local bratwurst. Babbitt came to peddle himself to Iowa Democrats, whose caucuses are the first major test of the 1988 presidential campaign. The Arizona Governor, whose successes are little known east of the Rocky Mountain states, needs all the early recognition...
Shots of Peking show the ignorant Americans the charm and history that the city holds as well as its seamier side. Lili and her friend bike down tree-covered boulevards, somehow always managing to stay a bit ahead of the more modern buses behind them...