Word: motorization
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...headed up to Connecticut's Stafford Motor Speedway to meet Dennis Anderson, the man who built Grave Digger in 1981 and still drives it whenever his shoulder is attached to his body. He told me he had started out "mudboggin' and tug-o-warrin'" four-wheel drives. I didn't understand most of what Dennis said. After sitting down for a brief conversation, he told me my monster-truck name should be Powder Puff Boy. Then he punched me in the knee...
...focal point for U.S.-Japan relations bodes badly for Woodland, as does continuing media coverage of subsequent stupid escapades by servicemen. Over a single steamy week in late July, one U.S. serviceman in Okinawa fired a BB gun at pizza-delivery boys, another tipped over a stranger's motor scooter, another set fire to a car and a Lance Corporal Marine got sentenced to five years in Japanese prison for repeated arson attacks on stores...
...disastrous attempt to windsurf in the ninth grade. I had managed to get out into the middle of the lake, but couldn’t figure out how to get back to the shore. After five minutes of trying to swim back while pulling the windsurf behind me, a motor boat finally took pity on me and dragged me and my board back to the beach. Given that the sailboat was about at least three times as big as the windsurf, I decided to take advantage of what CBI called “informal instruction” rather than risking...
...Motor-voter redux: Voting is fun again! Bring your stamped voter I.D. card to any participating fast food restaurant and get a free child-size soda in a collectible "I voted and I can drive...
...seem to be inadvertent intruders rather than targeted prey. Scientists who work with sharks know how dangerous they can be, and many are critical of the guided shark-feeding tours that are proliferating in Florida and the Bahamas. Sharks there have begun to associate the sound of an outboard motor with food, and there have been attacks by sharks apparently impatient to be fed, according to George Burgess, head of the International Shark Attack File. Shark feeding is illegal in two Florida cities, and a campaign to ban it statewide is under way. "When you are training animals...