Word: handlebars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Canada two years ago, a motorcyclist with an electrically operated prosthetic arm passed near high-tension lines that were creating a powerful magnetic field. This energy caused the arm's motor to behave so erratically that the rider lost his grip on the handlebar, fell to the ground, and was nearly killed...
...squad's enforcement than to battle attrition, but the Chinatown detail stayed. Ignorant of Chinese customs and language, the cops often reminded local residents of the tyrannical blue-jacketed officials of the Emperor's court. The detail went undercover-in heavy serge suits, bowlers and handlebar mustaches. Generations of San Franciscans grew up on pulp-magazine accounts of their exploits...
...testimony reads like a surrealistic nightmare: cribs that strangle, glass doors that shatter and become makeshift guillotines, high-handlebar bicycles that break cheekbones, hot-water vaporizers that scald, power mowers that clip off fingers and toes, wringer washing machines that crush the young and unwary. But the gruesome catalogue is no dream; it is compiled from accounts of common product hazards listed in a study released last week by the National Commission on Product Safety. The study notes that consumer products are involved in most household accidents -and those accidents kill 30,000 people annually, permanently disable...