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Word: rickshaws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
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...communications and electricity cables along the road. "Mujahidin," one whispered knowingly. After passing through a Soviet-manned checkpoint at Kandahar airport-the first of 40 such roadblocks during the trip-we reached the city itself. A man who had befriended us on the bus located a scooter rickshaw and led us to a safe house to spend the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY,AFGHANISTAN: Lethal Blunders | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...steered the truck around a rickshaw-senior citizens in our town have begun to supplement their Social Security payments by pulling carts, since the dollar floated loose from its moorings-and answered confidently: "U.S. citizen, U.S. born, 35 years of age, not presently residing in jail." I laughed at my own joke. "I just made up that last part," I said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Illinois: Imaginary Musings | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

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