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Word: gears (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a flaming gear box on a Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) train caused the evacuation of Kendall Square station yesterday afternoon, an estimated 5000 passengers experienced subway delays of more than an hour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fire on Subway Delays Red Line Commuters | 10/23/1986 | See Source »

Smoke and open flames emmenated from the gear box, but all the passengers immediately left from the train, and no one was injured. The direct cause of the flames has not yet been determined...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fire on Subway Delays Red Line Commuters | 10/23/1986 | See Source »

...then again, the Senate giveth, and the Senate taketh away. For all I know, they might throw the metaphorical roadster of highway safety back into fourth gear and drive off into the sunset of restrictive legislation. Maybe next week they'd raise the drinking age to 31 and require every occupant of a car to be strapped to an inflated air bag with 20-lb. test fishing line. I decided to withhold judgement until I could talk to an expert...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: Who Cares Anyway? | 10/1/1986 | See Source »

With only four minutes remaining in the game, and the Crimson offense still in full gear, senior Mylene Moreno took a pass from Dawson and slid the ball into...

Author: By Vadim Nikitine, | Title: Crimson Shuts Down Punchless Wildcats, 3-0; Women Booters Boost Record to 3-0 on Season | 9/25/1986 | See Source »

...shows under the auspices of such bike manufacturers as GT, Haro and Red Line. Bike breaking has all the signs of a street craze going mainstream: bikers are showing up in commercials (Pepsi, Swatch watches) and in music videos, and grateful merchandisers are climbing aboard with lines of bikes, gear and clothes. Says Happy Freedman, a semipro cyclist and salesman at Larry & Jeff's in New York City: "The freestyle craze is only starting. By next summer, we are going to see it going on everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Move Over, Break Dancing | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

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