Word: scooter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...played on the "Scooter Line" during the sixties...
...gripes? Only officers were allowed to have radios. And then there were Dai's Laotian allies, the Pathet Lao. "All they wanted in life was a wristwatch, then a motor scooter and other luxury items," he complained. "They weren't serious. The ones I saw were just fooling about. All the old hands said that the NVA did all the fighting and the Pathet Lao just sat around...
...detective follows her on his motor scooter from double-feature horror films to the dolphin pond in Windsor Park, he becomes infatuated. He is something of a pixy himself, a regular Zorba the Dick. He consumes huge quantities of yogurt, munches on endless macaroons, and makes a lot of funny faces. Now it is the wife who is unaccountably enchanted...
...Little Red Scooter," recorded to the chagrin of some of the Sox management...
...Industrialist Ferdinando Innocenti had an idea that put a nation on wheels. He made a stubby, inexpensive motor scooter: something more than a bike but less than a motorcycle. He called it the Lambretta, and Italians, too poor to buy autos, rapidly embraced it as their family vehicle. Premier Alcide de Gasperi boasted before he died that his regime had "given the motor scooter to the people." Pope Pius XII once publicly praised the motor scooters for "raising the level of life of the social categories who cannot buy more costly means of transport.'' Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini...