Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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David Hirst, 50, a correspondent for Britain's daily Guardian, was hauled into a black BMW by three gunmen in Muslim West Beirut when the taxi in which he was riding stopped with a flat tire. Blindfolded and with a gun at his temple, Hirst shouted and kicked to attract attention as he was driven through the city, ignoring a gunman's threats to shoot him if he did not desist. "I tried to make as much noise as I could, especially when the car stopped or slowed down at traffic jams," he recounted...
...Boston College men's water polo team bus blew a tire on the way to Harvard last night...
...Eagles probably wished the tire problem had forced them to forfeit the match--because when they finally arrived at Blodgett Pool, they suffered a 13-5 destruction at the hands of an anxious, victory-starved Crimson squad...
Here is how you do it: jump on a bike and pedal in a straight line. Brake abruptly, spin the bike over the jammed front wheel and stand semiupright on "fork stander" pegs that you have attached to either side of the front tire. When the maneuver is completed, pedal off nonchalantly. Congratulations. You have just freestyled. You are a "bike breaker." Go join skate boarders and break dancers in the Street-Life Hall of Fame...
Still, the secret police seem never to tire of watching -- and listening -- for a weakness. Foreign reporters assume, usually correctly, that their walls are bugged and their telephones tapped. Listening or homing devices can be hidden in their cars. Westerners are followed on picnics with their families, on walks with their dogs, on trips to the market. Joggers sometimes notice a drab sedan creeping along the curb; KGB agents do not share the American mania for fitness...