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Word: agawam (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Homeowners are using both simple and desperate means to cut oil consumption, everything from buying flannel pajamas and woolen sweaters to closing off rooms .and even whole floors for the duration. In Agawam, Mass., Ernest Bleeck, 73, a retired sales manager, and his wife Mary, 66, spent $2,000 to build a greenhouse on the sunny kitchen side of their two-story frame house. In addition, they have placed several water-filled, 55-gal. barrels among their geraniums and lettuce plants where the sun will warm the water; then the warmth can flow into the house through the kitchen windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Those Fear-of-Freezing Blues | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...Douglas and Rory, Eunice's Mark and Anthony, and some of their friends, I set out in a camper for a fun-filled tour across my home state. We rode the roller coaster, the Dodgem cars and the wave swinger ride at the Riverside amusement park in Agawam. We camped out in sleeping bags. We canoed on Pontoosuc Lake, where Rory and I got doused good when our canoe overturned. We never had to send a single postcard because every place we went, we were trailed by reporters and television crews. All wanted to know when I would declare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 20, 1979 | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

Surprisingly enough, it is possible to trace playing golf on the ice back to a distant origin. Samuel Parrish, one of the founders of Shinnecock Golf Club in Southampton, Long Island wrote: "One winter's day in the '90s Major Morton and myself went over to Lake Agawam to hit a few balls around on the ice. The Major suggested that I make an attempt to break all records for driving a golf ball. We selected a suitable spot and I managed to hit a good one which, with a strong wind, carried to the ice and, once...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: The First Swing of Spring | 4/10/1979 | See Source »

...Riverside Park in Agawam, Mass., the main attraction was the Kennedy clan. Paterfamilias Ted braved the Thunderbolt roller coaster with Teddy Jr., 15, sailed through the "Music Express" with Kara, 17, and happily bumped minicars with Patrick, 10. The occasion: a three-day family outing in western Massachusetts. Besides his own brood of three, Ted took along seven of their cousins. The agenda included canoeing, visiting a wildlife sanctuary and, of course, sleeping under the stars. The Kennedys also visited the home of Herman Melville in Pittsfield, and caught the Linda Ronstadt concert at Tanglewood, where they were joined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 5, 1977 | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

...putt fell by the wayside and someone else besides Alex Vik took away the Ivy golf crown for the first time in three years. Agawam Hunt Golf Course Card of the course No 1 422 yards par 4 No 2 175 yards par 3 No 3 502 yards par 5 No 4 470 yards par 5 No 5 168 yards par 3 No 6 463 yards par 4 No 7 293 yards par 4 No 8 155 yards par 3 No 9 347 yards par 4 No 10 388 yards par 4 No 11 152 yards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golfers Finish Third in Ivy League Championship | 4/16/1977 | See Source »

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