Word: motor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inquire about it. At one point today, you told a group of people that you were against legislation of marijuana because you had read a study somewhere saying that it caused 'brain-damage.' At another point during the day you told another crowd that you were against laws requiring motor-cyclists to wear crash helmets because you thought it wasn't the government's job to legislate against actions by people that would harm only themselves. It's clear that anybody on a motorcycle going down the road at 60 mph is going to suffer brain damage if he crashes...
Also, Thomas Vacha, a Buildings and Grounds employee, revealed this week that, because of a special request from Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, the delivery service receives free use of a B&G Cushman motor vehicle...
Cooperatives and mutual aid societies have sprung up throughout the south as families group together to buy equipment for production. Along the coast, fishing cooperatives form to purchase motor boats. In farming areas, peasants band together to build irrigation systems or buy pumps. Schools are going up everywhere--by last October, four million children were in grade school. Schooling is free for the first time in South Vietnam's history: the government provides the materials and the villagers help build. Teachers are being trained as quickly as possible, and many are coming down from the north to help...
...Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" in "The Rags Suite" (1972). Able to tie knots around the music's rhythm, the two are unable to embrace, botching several attempts, although at the end they do waltz (out of kilter) in their elegant white dress. Tharp connects each dancer's deep-down motor to his outside being, transforming the motor's violent churnings into zips of energy across the body--an odd metaphor for inside jitters...
...mellower George Wallace? Not the fellow who was stumping last week in Chicopee, Mass.-or "Chickapoo," as he once called it. There was space for 1,250 people in the meeting room of the Highpoint Motor Inn, but 2,500 turned up, so the feisty Alabama Governor simply went through his routine twice-an impressive performance for a man of 56 who is confined to a wheelchair, totally paralyzed from the waist down and partly deaf. It was vintage Wallace, and the crowd loved...