Word: handlebar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...appears to be a fragment of the sedan's side mirror. It was found at the scene a considerable distance behind the wreckage, which suggests that the car might have made hard contact with something just before it spun out of control. Investigators wonder if that something was the handlebar of a paparazzo's motorcycle. All the same, insists Goksin Sipahiouglu, head of the Sipa photo agency, it would have been pointless for the photographers to catch the Mercedes or pull alongside it to take pictures. "A moving photo of a car with tinted windows would have no value...
...that was in any authority was white. It was frustrating. We'd get a white politician that would come in and promise everything, and then when they won, they didn't know you." He is receiving friends at his business. His tone is soft, almost apologetic, but his small handlebar mustache and his pink tie and matching handkerchief suggest a healthy self-image. Some wonder whether perhaps he is too moderate. His response may relieve those who resent his judicially mandated rise, not to mention its newfangled engineering. "I'm only one person on the board," he says...
Enter Clive's friend Harry Bagley (Robert de Neufville), a middle-aged Banana poster-boy with a handlebar mustache. Betty wants him, really wants him, but he decides he'd rather have her as a pure inspiration than a roll...
Last but hardly least, there was Thurman Munson. A great leader, a solid block of granite behind the plate, and noted for his bad attitude and handlebar mustache, Munson was killed in 1979 when his plane crashed. I can remember no moment in my life as sad as when I heard the news of his death. I was shocked, dumbfounded and crushed, unwilling to believe that such a person was mortal...
CYCLE COMPUTERS. Tiny, handlebar-mounted computers coveted by racers have great appeal to leisure-time cyclists too. Firms like Avocet of Menlo Park, Calif., market a variety of "cyclometers" that measure and record speed, distance and even altitude. Whether gearing up for a race or trying to lose weight, cyclists always like to know their vital statistics...