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Word: bike (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Okay, freshmen. Today's the day to take freshman trips! That's right, there's a bike trip, a trip to Crane's Beach, a trip to the Hancock Observatory, and a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts (the last is the best bet). You'll probably have more fun if you go on your own, though...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: The Week Gets Weaker | 8/15/1980 | See Source »

Horse specializes in conning his friends, trading his superb drumming talent for money and favors. Unhappy with life as a studio musician, he buys a motorcycle in order to sell records to shops in Kingston. When Mafia hoods steal his bike, then beat him, Horse decides it's time to exact revenge from rich Mr. Big, who happens to have a beautiful daughter named Sunshine. It's all very silly, of course, and it concludes with the same moral as any Robin Hood fable...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Soothing the Savage Beast | 7/25/1980 | See Source »

...even had a white satin robe with words to that effect written on the back. He gained that most important of titles through a series of remarkable events, some of which were beyond his control. Yes, he did work for the title. Started at 12 when someone stole his bike; went to a gym to learn how to kill the kid when he found...

Author: By Nevin I. Shalit, | Title: Muhammad Ali: Losing the Real Title | 7/15/1980 | See Source »

Like the ski parka and the ten-speed bike, multi-hued running shoes have become part of the trappings of the modern American, even if his or her idea of exercise consists only of getting up to turn on the television set to watch the Wide World of Sports. Bearing price tags that range up to $69, the new breed of cushioned rubber athletic shoe has trampled that familiar and often smelly old relic, the sneaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Swift Profits | 6/30/1980 | See Source »

...over the cyclist, now lying still on the ground, and hit him on the head with his nightstick, testified Meier. Added Veverka: "I got splattered with the blood." Hanlon testified that he himself then drove his squad car over the motor cycle to make it look as though the bike had crashed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: What Happened to Duff? | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

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