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Word: coasters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...take the blue line out to the end, you end up in Revere by the once-condemned roller coaster. That amusement park was probably what inspired the famous singer who grew up there to later record a song about another such place. Who was this ride-lover...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: This Is the Last Oldies Quiz of the Year | 5/22/1970 | See Source »

Rumania's Tarom has new, British-built BAC-111s on its international flights, but little else. Pilots hamhandedly overcompensate on the controls, giving each flight the quality of a roller-coaster ride. Stewardesses are plump and cheerful. Breakfast sometimes consists of cold roast pork and sliced green peppers. Bucharest has a modern terminal, but ground service is slow and surly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Guide to Adventurous Flying | 5/4/1970 | See Source »

...next trip was on the blue line. I chose to go all the way to Wonderland, where I could supposedly change without charge. But when I got out there, I was greeted by the condemned roller coaster of Revere Beach and some equally decrepit turnstiles, which demanded another of my precious quarters. But at least on my ride out there, I had ridden in these cars which had heat pouring up through the slats in the wooden seats-really great on this cold morning...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Red, Blue, Green, Orange-A Subway Odyssey | 4/11/1970 | See Source »

...roller coaster through manhattan by underground express...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Undaunted Pursuit of Fury | 4/6/1970 | See Source »

...twisted pines, bamboos, cherry trees, ponds, bridges and teahouses. At 210 restaurants, geared to dispense 235,000 meals per day, they can sample anything from Algerian cous-cous to Siberian snow grouse. Entertainment will range from the Bolshoi Opera and the New York Philharmonic to a three-mile roller coaster called the daidarasaurus. Offering a different sort of show, radical Japanese students plan demonstrations to show their opposition both to the Establishment responsible for the fair and the expected renewal in June of the U.S.-Japanese security treaty. They may also time protests to coincide with the planned visits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Expo '70: Osaka's $2 Billion Blowout | 3/2/1970 | See Source »

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