Word: hop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reporters hop into chauffeur-driven, air-conditioned Mercedes-Benz limousines and rush out onto the highways. Three, four, five hours later they begin trickling back-the lucky ones-to a lawn-edged pool at the stately, decaying Royal Hotel. Sipping lemonade or good Russian vodka, they trade experiences. Nothing to the north for 20 klicks (kilometers). All quiet at Kompong Speu, but the city is deserted and still smoldering from a Communist mortar attack that morning. "You should have seen this one old lady," says a reporter. "She had a line of bullets up her leg. The goddam wounds were...
Hardly anything could be simpler: you hop on, grab the handlebars, press down on a pedal and roll off. Indeed, it is so easy for most people to ride a bicycle that science has hardly bothered to answer a very obvious question: What gives the bicycle its extraordinary stability? Properly curious, a British research chemist named David E.H. Jones decided to do a little backyard experimenting. His plan: to identify the bicycle's essential stabilizing features by building one that completely lacked them. In short, he would construct a totally unridable bicycle...
...Wilt. He responded by raking in 27 rebounds and scoring 45 points as the Lakers crushed the Knicks 135 to 113. That tied the series at three games apiece and set the stage for the final game. Vowed Reed: "I will play even if I have to hop around...
...beginning to drag, but this guy and his chick in saddle shoes and a letter sweater brought in some tunes-"At the Hop." "All I Have to Do Is Dream." etc. Some of the cool ones got up and rocked, but Flex took a bite out of his red hot and looked straight ahead. He wasn't lookin' for trouble, but he wasn't looking to avoid it, neither. He just wanted...
...nervousness to the assembled 500,000) but Arlo Guthrie comes over with a sureness and command only intermittently evident in Alice's Restaurant. Sha Na Na offer a neat, affectionate and very funny send-up of '50s rock with their strutting, snarling, pomaded version of At the Hop...