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Word: biked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Among some American bike and youth gangs today, gang rape is standard punishment for infractions by females...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Revolt Against RAPE | 10/13/1975 | See Source »

...contest is billed as the "King of Capitol Hill," a sexist appellation that was sure to stir up interest from feminist Congresswoman Bella Abzug. While congressional Republicans and Democrats spent part of their week preparing to square off in the half-mile bike race, the 60-yd. dash and other events-all to raise money for the retarded children's Special Olympics-Representative Abzug jumped into some sweat pants and sized up the volleyball competition. Her spirits may have been high, but some opponents doubted whether she would be able to reach those low returns. "My serve," confessed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 29, 1975 | 9/29/1975 | See Source »

Another semitough way to see the back country is to bicycle through it. Vermont Bicycle Touring in Bristol has devised 74 different rural bike trips lasting from a weekend to 16 days and suited to riders of all degrees of proficiency; nights are spent in small country inns. Wisconsin has two of the nation's finest rural bike trails: the Elroy-Sparta (30 miles long) and the Sugar River (23 miles), which are laid out on paved-over railbeds and are barred to cars and motorcycles; the grade never exceeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Adventure in Tranquil Places | 8/18/1975 | See Source »

...head is baleful and timid, and I fondle it while unloading. Out of its bag, the head smells like a 2 a.m. urinal with broken plumbing and I kick dust over it. Briggs and I load it on the front of the van, between the bikes on the bike rack. Thick, greasy and matted, the hair on the skull sticks out like a crown's wig. Twisted slightly down and to the right, the head leers out before us as we drive back to West, blowing long streamers of iridescent bubbles into the Big Sky Country, our windshield catching chunks...

Author: By Edmund Horsey, | Title: Elsewhere in the Summer, and an Elk Head | 7/15/1975 | See Source »

...already closed the road off of which the head is hidden--there are some birds mating near it, he explains--and once the main road is clear, he hauls it down to the van, holding it before him by its rack, like the handlebars of a bike. The eyeballs have fallen out of their sockets, but the head is still covered with fur, and is brown and runny inside, 6-10 and Fred put it into two plastic garbage bags...

Author: By Edmund Horsey, | Title: Elsewhere in the Summer, and an Elk Head | 7/15/1975 | See Source »

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