Word: wheels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eighteen anti-nuclear protesters, including two Sisters of Mercy and one demonstrator in a wheel chair, were arrested yesterday at the Seabrook nuclear power construction site...
...This is a time of disillusionment and soul searching. Life is viewed as complicated and unfair. Says Gould: "Discovering that 'life is a struggle' is like rediscovering the wheel...
...Ragbrai (pronounced rag-bray), for the Register's Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa. Last week, for the sixth and biggest Ragbrai run, some 5,500 bikers started from the Big Muddy at Sioux City and set out east across the lush, gently rolling heartland to dunk front wheels seven days later in the Father of Rivers at Clinton. En route, along 440 miles of tranquil back-country roads, the sportive pedalers pumped and panted, munched, sang and slurped through 42 towns and hamlets with such names as Unique, Popejoy, Maquoketa, Alice and Viola. If it was an exhilarating...
...board; of a heart attack; on his yacht, which was docked near Cheyboygan, Mich. Second oldest grandson of Automotive Pioneer Henry Ford, Benson dropped out of Princeton after two years to work in the family company, and eventually headed the Lincoln-Mercury division. But he was happiest behind the wheel of a succession of motor yachts, all named Onika, and partly because of ill health, never played a major role in Ford management...
...pair of sluggish old fishing boats were placidly trawling off the southern shore of Thailand on a moonlit night. Suddenly the fishermen spotted two dark silhouettes clipping toward them across the water. Skipper Kimheng Phonsawat, 47, did not wait to identify them. Crouching low over his wheel, he instantly directed both his boats to slash their nets and make for nearby Ko Kut Island at full throttle. "I could tell by the sound that the other boats had 300-h.p. engines," he recalled. "As one of them pulled alongside, we came under rifle fire." Three of Kimheng's crew...