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Word: biking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three-day Whitsun weekend, the weather was as warm and bright as the sky in a Visit Britain poster. Streaming out of London by scooter, motor bike and train, the kids swarmed into two seaside resorts, the prearranged settings for their teen-age rites of spring. There, in two days of juvenile violence without parallel in England, they left no stone unhurled to turn holiday into holocaust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: The Battle of the Yobs | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

...from Tricycles. Dunlop rolled into the rubber business aboard a tricycle. Scottish Veterinarian John Boyd Dunlop fashioned a set of pneumatic tires for his small son; they rode so well that he went into business making racing cycle tires. The company still manufactures 4-oz. bike tires for racers. But it makes 1,800 other varieties as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Dunlop Rides High | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

...Rockers have no desire to be accepted. At truck stops outside London, they sit by the hour rolling cigarettes and jabbering intently about motorcycles. Only when a covey of new cyclists roars into the parking lot do they look up to see "who's got a new bike." Though they all look like Marlon Brando in The Wild One, they worry about their reputation as troublemakers, claim gravely: "That film did us a lot of harm." The Rockers do not conceal their disdain for the Mods. "The money we spend tripping around and going places, they spend on clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: The Clacton Giggle | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

Exhaust Pipes & Nail Polish. Entries are divided into twelve classes: Custom Rod Motorcycle, Sports Car, Antique,' Hand Emit, Classic, Restored, Drag Boat. Pick Up. Go Kart and Minnie Bike. The best in each class compete tor two championship trophies: Best Rod and Best Custom. In addition, spectators may vote for "the most popular car of the show"; the car with the most votes in all shows on the circuit wins a 1964 500-XL Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hobbies: The Customizers | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

When Restaurateur Toots Shor dove off a bar stool and fractured his right wrist a few weeks back, Jackie Gleason, 47, provided as much tease as sympathy. But The Blub is getting last licks. In a TV role, Gleason had to pedal downhill on a bike into a phony brick wall. The wall was supposed to fall away. Instead it fell on him, and lo and behold, a broken left wrist. With his injured appendage safely enslinged, Gleason offered a truce to Toots. "Now," he cracked, "we can go out and buy a pair of gloves together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 8, 1963 | 11/8/1963 | See Source »

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