Word: scootering
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...have literally translated American expressions, such as Imgleichen Boot sitzen (to be in the same boat), and Germanized others, such as Beiproduct, brandneu, Eierkopf, Herzattacke, kalter Krieg, (byproduct, brand-new, egghead, heart attack, cold war). They assimilate the unassimilable by total adoption-beatnik, baby sitter, bootlegger, bulldozer, king-size, scooter and stripper. Hundreds of American words have become German Verbs-parken, twisten, hitchhiken. The Luftwaffe fills the air with bilingual babble: "Aber no sweat, boy, no sweat. Ich habe normal letdown procedure gemacht...
...College and 'Cliffe administrations could easily reduce the money and safety costs which undergraduates pay for weather depreciation of their bikes and scooters by constructing simple wooden or metal roofed bicycle racks near Radcliffe dorms, and by sheltering a few of the present motor scooter parking areas near the Houses...
...Several miles away, on the worn-out coalfield fringe of Birmingham, two young Negro brothers, James and Virgil Ware, were riding a bicycle. Virgil, 13, was sitting on the handle bars. A motor scooter with two 16-year-old white boys aboard approached from the opposite direction. James Ware, 16, told what happened then: "This boy on the front of the bike turns and says something to the boy behind him, and the other reaches in his pocket and he says Pow! Pow! with a gun twice. Virgil fell and I said, get up Virgil, and he said...
...suppose the intelligent thing to have done would have been to be a little more false and flowery," groused Stirling Moss, 33, after Acton (West London) Chief Driving Examiner Cyril Smith flunked him in his bid to renew a lapsed motor-scooter license. But he could still buzz around with the red "L" learner plates on the purple scooter. And there went the retired auto-racing champion, looking pretty purple himself in top hat and tails-until he explained that he was on his way to his sister's wedding reception...
...settle down there. "As soon as I heard that," says Meixner, "I made up my mind to get her out." Last Exit. He laid his plans with meticulous care. To get a good look at the Communist side of the Friedrichstrasse crossing point for foreigners, Meixner stalled his motor scooter near the peppermint-striped steel beam that closes the last exit in the Wall. Pretending to have engine trouble, he measured the height of the barrier, found that it was only 37½ in. from the ground. His next step was to search the car rental agencies in West Berlin...