Word: biked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Industrialist Ferdinando Innocenti had an idea that put a nation on wheels. He made a stubby, inexpensive motor scooter: something more than a bike but less than a motorcycle. He called it the Lambretta, and Italians, too poor to buy autos, rapidly embraced it as their family vehicle. Premier Alcide de Gasperi boasted before he died that his regime had "given the motor scooter to the people." Pope Pius XII once publicly praised the motor scooters for "raising the level of life of the social categories who cannot buy more costly means of transport.'' Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini...
...courtship, and ends in a wartime winter several years later, inside a barren schoolroom crowded with Jews awaiting confinement. In between, De Sica observes the gathering momentum of catastrophe in small, subtle moments: anonymous phone calls during a Passover celebration, a tiny Nazi flag in a newsboy's bike basket...
...stockholders, managers, advertisers, or cautious deskmen, he has jousted with official Washington every week for nearly 1,000 weeks, and won far more often than he lost. This week he announced that he is closing down the paper because, at 64 "I can't be a five day bike racer any more...
...University Police have taken the names of over 120 students in the past week in an effort to rid the Yard of bike riders...
Robert Tonis, chief of University Police, said yesterday that the move represented no change in policy but reflected a concentration of effort to enforce existing rules against bike riding...