Word: biking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...willing, provided she could keep up other activities that interested her. These included playing football (she once tackled a boy on the concrete sidewalk and broke his collarbone), baseball (two stitches in her forehead after being hit with a bat), and careening down Shoshone Place on her bike, no hands. But she settled down to her voice lessons. She wanted an audience. In a whistling recital, she had discovered her true love: "I enjoyed being onstage in front of all those people. I had a wonderful time...
...House who without doubt must be considered the Eroteric Sport champion of Harvard University. In a world where football, baseball, and basketball dominate spectator interest and the sport pages. Hart has plugged steadily along and is now firmly established as the finest single scaller, cross-country skier, and Wellesley bike racer in the University...
Most awesome of Hart's sporting accomplishments to many observers was his triumph last year in the Cambridge-to-Wellesley bike race, an event which he had also won the year before. Last spring, in the balloon tire class, he turned in a time which was only thirteen seconds slower than the racing-bike winner...
...better next time. He passed secret after secret in prearranged code to Anisimov. Sometimes he would cycle about in civilian clothes pretending to pick berries, but really sketching details of coastal fortifications. Later he would write a report in invisible ink, put it in the toolbox of his bike and leave it parked by a prearranged lamppost. Presently he would return and find another bike in its place. His reward, a bundle of money tied up in ribbons of Sweden's national blue and gold, would be lying in the second bike's toolbox...
...Soviet embassy. Last summer, Stockholm's police got a tip to look into the frequent meetings between the two naval officers, Swedish and Russian. The police shadowed Andersson, observed his note-taking and followed his exchange of bicycles. In the toolbox of Orlov's bike, they found all the evidence they needed...