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Word: dynaflow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exfoliation of pastels and plastics, superhighways and suburban tracts. The entire culture seemed to have teen-age glands. New, unsettling dimensions suddenly opened: the interstate highway system, the picture window, the grainy little black-and-white universe of television. Gas was cheap, and bright big-finned Detroit cars with Dynaflow or Hydra-Matic swooshed Americans up and down the landscape in rhapsodies of mobility, well-being and heedlessness. In 1954, Oklahoma A & M College surveyed its students to ask their greatest fears and problems. The students answered that their greatest worry in the world was finding a parking space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Dreaming of the Eisenhower Years | 7/28/1980 | See Source »

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