Word: scootering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...since the Roman chariot, have the Italians made a vehicle so peculiarly and proudly their own. Throughout the country, Italians ride swiftly to work & play on streamlined little two-wheeled scooters that do more than 100 miles on a gallon of gas. The motor scooter, invented in the U.S. but never a big seller, has become the model T of Italy, putting the country on wheels, breaking down regional barriers, and filling the air with its sputtering roar. Whole families ride a scooter. While the father drives, and one or two children stand on the tiny floorboard between his seat...
Last week Genoa's Piaggio & Co., makers of Italy's first scooter, the Vespa (wasp), invaded the U.S. market with a roar. Sears, Roebuck & Co., which had ordered 1,000 Vespas as an experiment, sent a rush order for 5,000 more by September, and Piaggio prepared to supply Sears with up to 2,000 a month thereafter. Price...
Barry cannot walk; he gets around the house by squatting on a roller skate and using it as a scooter. He cannot go to school, but a teacher visits him two hours a day. Barry's mother, a railway worker's wife, always picks him up by the hips rather than grasping him under the arms. "He seems to have developed a sixth sense about bumping into anything that might break a bone," she says. "Unfortunately, he can't anticipate other people's actions. When visitors come, he usually sits under the table. He finds that...
...faster program of social reform. At the other end of the Demo-Christian spectrum is a right-wing faction which wants less social reform (notably, less land reform). Its members are known as the Vespisti, because they meet in the club-rooms of Rome's Vespa motor-scooter club...
...built,' this engine won't run, this ship won't fly, or this plane won't win the war, I'm going to ask for his resignation immediately." When an assembly line slowed down, Colbert would hop on a motor scooter and dash to the scene of the trouble. Finally, the first engine came off the line and began its loo-hour test run. After 70 hours, the engine blew up; a tiny oil hole had not been drilled all the way through. But the next engine tested perfectly...