Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bicycle owners say that problems with weather, bad road conditions and thefts have led them to buy cheaper bikes, made for rugged terrain riding, rather than more expensive 10-speed racing bicycles...
Hastings says that he owns two bicycles, one 10-speed bike for summer riding, and a balloontired three-speed with special foot-brakes, that he rides during the winter and wet weather, when hand-brakes do not always suffice...
...nervous because the cars were going much faster than the posted speed limit, but I couldn't know the horror that was about to befall me. The first hint came as a huge garbage truck, with workers hanging off of all sides, arms flailing, came roaring from beneath the underpass. I couldn't tell, it all happened so fast, but it seemed that they swerved toward me on purpose...
...mind must have snapped that fateful day, and I found myself more and more wanting to hurt others as I had been hurt--to force little old ladies to climb street lights, to catch baby carriages on my car's bumper and push them down the street at breakneck speed, and to turn normally healthy young Harvard students into quivering lumps of processed vegetable matter. At the same time I wanted to force all Honda drivers into trees and make garbage trucks do triple Louganis spins into brick walls. My plan would accomplish all this, and more...
...Research conducted by [Dr.] Rick Sharp [of lowa State] shows a 23-28 percent increase in speed due to shaving," Pitt Coach Dr. David Belowich said...