Word: scootering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night last week all was quiet in Ribadelago. In the tavern men were playing cards. At the church Father Plácido Esteban-Gonzalez had just arrived on his motor scooter from the provincial capital of Zamora. An electrician named Rey was working late in his shop. Shortly after midnight the lights in the village flickered out. At the tavern, irritated cardplayers lit candles, went on with their game. Suddenly, a distant, muffled roar was heard. To woodcutters in the mountains, it sounded like a "great stampede." To one villager, the noise resembled "a continuous dynamite blast." Father Placido went...
...plea from son David, 12, was soulful and wide-eyed, so Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver ambled outside for a look. There, smart as paint, stood a neighbor's new, factory-built scooter (equipped with a 2½-h.p. engine) that David wanted in trade for his old, homemade soapbox racer. Brightly, the Keef decided that he'd better take a ride-just to make sure the deal was fair and square. Democrat Kefauver, all of 6 ft. 3 in., hunched himself in, buzzed off down a hill sporting the widest of aha-the-voters smirks. Soon learning that...
...young man's face was bright as he read. He had a motor-scooter parked outside...
...memorial fund has been established for Eleanor R. Voss, the third-year law student who was killed last Thursday when her motor scooter collided with a taxi...
...perhaps Cambridge and Harvard would rather discourage the bicycle rider, who, after all, does contribute to the traffic problem. If so, both have ignored a possible alternative of encouragement--that several automobile drivers would bicycle or scooter around the Square if things were easier on them...