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...Donnell of the Greater New York Safety Council, is the inexperience of new motorcycle owners. "The pro in cycling wears durable clothing, such as leathers, and a proper helmet, and never has bare arms or legs. He knows how to handle his machine-in contrast with the put-put crowd in the go-go set. The most serious accidents happen to these people, who are not sufficiently skilled and drive around without proper equipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Accidents: Mayhem on Motorcycles | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

...awareness that the mariner's world required special skills and knowledge. Today the ubiquitous cabin cruiser seems to many a Sunday skipper like nothing more than a watertight version of the car he left parked at the marina, while the outboard motor has evolved from a poky put-put to a roaring, soaring substitute for a jet fighter plane. The result is a whole new set of perils of the surface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leisure: Perils of the Surface | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

...frontier settlement which stretches to the Jordan wire, 20 miles northwest of Jerusalem, a tired, unshaven man, coated with the dirt of the field, picked up his Sten gun and climbed to the roof of his house. The village generator, silent all day to save fuel, started to put-put, and 73 floodlights splashed light across the rocky fields. So began another night in the siege without respite that has been going on for five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FRONTIER OF HATRED: Trouble Gathers on the Arab-Israeli Border | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

...Put-Put...

Author: By Daniel Ellsberg, | Title: Wassily Leontief | 6/19/1952 | See Source »

...universities and government bureaus at one and a half million dollars yearly, about $70,000 in developmental work at Harvard. In keeping with its new stature, the official title of the field has become "interindustry economics'; partly because of a noxious tendency of Washington bureaucrats to use the nickname "put-put...

Author: By Daniel Ellsberg, | Title: Wassily Leontief | 6/19/1952 | See Source »

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