Word: 70s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...golf course, and if you shoot under 80, you have no business." Ike, whose average when he has been playing regularly stands at about 84, is currently between these two extremes. Said Pro Dudley last week: "If he had time to practice, he would play in the high 70s easily. He's a fine competitor and never gives...
Miss Brown: "Your board was put on after the '70s. Here's an original walnut board...
...struggling young architect. He had saved up enough money to support a wife, a tall, 22-year-old blonde named Ellen Hunt Milton, whose brother had married John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s daughter, Abby. They were living in a small, two-room apartment in Manhattan's East 70s when Harrison's old teacher, Harvey Corbett, offered him a partnership. Harrison jumped at the chance, and for "the next four years designed a series of auditoriums and office buildings with Corbett. Architecture was almost his entire life. There was always a drawing board in his room...
Barges & Nostalgia. Good riverman that he is, Author Bissell writes with affection of the old steamboat days, when a big one like the Sprague could push as many as 60 barges loaded down with 54,000 tons of coal. He becomes nostalgic recalling that stern-wheelers in the '70s made regular trips on the highways of water between Pittsburgh and Fort Benton, Mont. But he knows that diesels are here to stay, and doesn't let his nostalgia get teary-eyed. Nor does he equate the ' Monongahela and the Coal Queen with romance. But when a stranger...
Most of Thurber's forebears were long-lived and the men were men, not the modern shrew-ridden neurosis carriers of the Thurber cartoons. In his 70s, Great-Grandfather Fisher could lift 200 lbs. over his head. When he died at 77, his hair was black and he had "all his own teeth in his head, too-all except one. That'd been knocked out with a brick in a fight." Toward the end, he came to look at a newborn great-grandchild, "a puny boy weighing seven pounds." "Goddam it," he said, "the next generation of Fishers...