Word: biked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Around 9:30 p.m. Monday, Drickamer's telephone rang and a voice at the other end said, "You don't know who I am, but if you call WCOZ within five minutes, you'll win a bike," Drickamer recalled yesterday...
Ironically Drickamer said she had entered the WCOZ contest "by mistake" and already owns a ten-speed bike...
...chocolate-colored trains, guided by computers, glide at speeds of up to 75 m.p.h. on cushioned rails. For security, there are TV cameras that tilt, pan and zoom, as well as cops on every train. Many of the stations will feature $1-a-day "Park & Ride" lots for motorists, "Bike & Ride" racks for cyclists and even "Kiss & Ride" lanes for commuters who are driven to the train and dropped off. What with inflation, the system will cost $4.65 billion in stead of the originally budgeted $2.5 billion. Only 4.6 miles have actually been opened out of a total...
...tends to counter a side effect of one type of immunosuppressive drug: demineralization of the bones. One patient, a professional bowler who will shortly be discharged from Stanford, has been given free rein to resume his career; another is careening about Palo Alto these days on a ten-speed bike...
Funnybone-First. Whether roaring down a canyon road or hurtling around the concave walls of an empty, round swimming pool, the new skateboards are as different from their 1960s predecessors as a ten-speed bike is from a velocipede. The original skateboards were made of wood and had nailed-on wheels of metal, rubber or clay. The new models, up to 30 in. long, are made of fiber glass, with clear amber polyurethane wheels, adapted from roller skates, that give the rider more stability and versatility. "Compared with the new skateboards, the old ones were like cars with wooden wheels...