Word: biking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bicycle races by Adams House hell-bent for New Lecture Hall that does not bring a smile to Harry Frankel '34, proprietor of the Bi-ex Bike Repair Shop on 3 Bow Street. For it means another member of his old alma mater converted to the bicycle brethren...
...always hate to buy a bike from anybody. Even if it's a good buy, it just means we've lost another cyclist to the Sport," he remarked yesterday on this conflict between long and short run business principle...
...crowd gathered. Crippled Peter Back, the local Nazi leader, rode up on his motor bike. When the flyer reached the ground, Back shot him in the head, twice. Back was shouting "Shoot him! Beat him to death!" The flyer was still alive when blond, one-armed Peter Kohn, a railway worker who had been discharged from the Wehrmacht, sprang from the crowd and beat the prostrate man with a club. Matthias Gierens, a small, hard-faced crane operator in whose family there had been insanity, crushed the flyer's skull with a heavy hammer. Matthias Krein, a home guardsman...
Hence, for any plain reader who may have been scared away by Author Brooks's reputation as the nation's most distinguished literary critic, Irving is an excellent place to begin his history. Van Wyck (rhymes with bike) Brooks is no mere dissector of dead tomes. In Irving, as in its two predecessors, the task which he has set himself is nothing less than to recreate the whole intellectual and artistic atmosphere of the period. Few Americans will read it without a thrill of discovery at learning how much more lively, vigorous and original an intellectual life...
...just idling off when a fellow on a bike buzzed up. "I want you," he said. "Your place has copped it." He lent me the bike-decent bloke he was-and I burned up the main road toward home. Soon as I got near I could see it was close -crowds and the most awful bloody wreckage all over the lot, police lines streets away. ... I took a quick look. Our house was standing-well, more or less standing. But it was blitzed to bloody hell-the roof clean off, the windows and doors gone, the walls sagging...