Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cambridge winters can always be counted upon to turn out hundreds of rusted bicycles and badly weathered motor scooters and cycles. If Radcliffe and Harvard provided adquate shelters, this depreciation of undergraduate property could be avoided...
...Cliffe, girls may now rent canvas bicycle covers for four dollars a year. These, however, do not protect bikes well and are themselves buried under the first big snow. At the Houses and in the Yard there are no shelters for motor scooters or for bicycles...
...Cheat. Loosening up as it progressed, the interview closed in an exchange of banter, with Khrushchev maintaining that capitalists controlled the U.S. Government. "Who was McNamara before he became Secretary of Defense?" asked Nikita. "He was president of Ford Motor," answered G. Keith Funston, president of the New York Stock Exchange. "He's one out of ten in the Cabinet. Why not talk about the others...
...noon, Diem prepared to take his lunch, and so did the rest of Saigon. Shutters fell over store windows and the lovely tree-lined boulevards were suddenly choked with hordes of motor bikes, pedicabs, and buzzing little Renault taxis hauling people home for two hours of escape from the stupefying midday heat...
Both the A-1 (the original Polaris) and the A-2 are shoved to the sea's surface by compressed air-a process that requires heavy tanks and complicated valving. The A-3 starts on its flight when a small rocket motor is ignited and shoots hot gas into a water chamber. Part of the water turns to steam, and the gas-steam mixture pops the missile out of its submarine cell...