Word: 70s
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...upstream at the right moment on a standing wave, you can stay there forever." Just save plenty of energy for the 250-m vertical climbs out of the gorge on handmade bamboo ladders that punctuate the rock face along the way. Bangs remembers the pioneering days of the late '70s when he struggled to convince expatriates and local hoteliers that the Zambezi was navigable: "It is hard to believe that the Zambezi has now become an adventure-sports Mecca." Livingstone might be surprised at the river's new activities, but no doubt he'd wholly approve of the spirit...
...sounds like a kid at heart, he is. A science-fiction fan, he has all the tapes of the original Battlestar Galactica TV show from the '70s. In Iraq, he used his reputation as an auto mechanic to play practical jokes on the unsuspecting. "I'd tell 'em to go get a flux capacitor," he says, laughing that his Guard buddies didn't catch the Back to the Future reference. His favorite game remains Warhammer, a tabletop battlefield game in which real-world strategies are played out with miniature soldiers. He builds his own figures, mixing Warhammer components, like...
...Russell makes the trip to Cambridge nearly every weekend to shop at the Garment District for “all the cheap vintage stuff,” she said. Even as she dug through the racks of vintage, used, and name-brand clothes, she was already wearing a cotton, 70s-era housedress that she bought from the Garment District just the weekend before. Unlike Una’s in the Square and other small, used-clothing shops, the Garment District is an enormous two-story “department store” with a 40-person staff that processes...
...trying to keep crocodiles and human beings apart. With more than 100,000 crocodiles living around the coast from Bundaberg, Queensland, to Derby, Western Australia, it's a daunting task. Each attack draws calls for a cull of the reptiles, which have been protected by law since the early '70s, and fresh concerns about the effectiveness of management programs. The Queensland government says its crocodile-control strategy - monitoring populations, removing crocodiles identified as a threat and educating people about the dangers - is working. But according to officials and rangers interviewed by Time about the Jefferies attack, stopping one of nature...
...York Post reports that Barry Manilow is releasing an album where he covers classic songs from the 1950s. When asked why he picked the '50s, Manilow said, 'Because I already ruined the '70s and '80s.'" --CONAN O'BRIEN...