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Word: hardtop (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tuomo Kerola sounds like a Japanese two-door hardtop...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: 'For I'm a Jolly Good Fellow'... | 2/15/1978 | See Source »

...class if you can keep a turtle healthy and running for five or six years." Main threat to the turtles' health: the customers at Brennan's. Fueled up on "jelly beans," a deadly concoction of anisette and blackberry brandy, they pose a mortal threat to the hardtop thoroughbreds plodding underfoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Mock Thoroughbreds | 9/22/1975 | See Source »

...last Wednesday after lunch. At 10 p.m., when he still had not shown up, she nervously called in some friends to keep her company. At 8 a.m. on Thursday, the family asked the police to look for him. They found his car, a dark green 1974 Pontiac Grand Ville hardtop, in the parking lot outside the fashionable Machus Red Fox Restaurant in Bloomfield Township, 15 miles northwest of Detroit. But there was no sign of Jimmy Hoffa, 62, the stubby, cocky, belligerent figure who was as tough as any truck driver on the road and who loved to wield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Jimmy Hoffa's Disappearance | 8/11/1975 | See Source »

...with fuel economy. More and more small cars now sport such features as velour upholstery, vinyl roofs, simulated-wood instrument panels, even chrome-plated grilles and hood ornaments. Such features are pushing prices up close to what drivers used to pay for big cars; a Plymouth Valiant two-door hardtop with all those features, plus three-speed windshield wipers, folding armrest and several other amenities, lists at the factory for about $3,500. Drivers are buying cars plain and fancy, low-and high-priced-anything, as long as it is small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Small Inherit a Shrunken Market | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

...correct that the Governor of Delaware has opted for a smaller vehicle. Governer Sherman W. Tribbitt prefers riding in his own Chevrolet hardtop on state business, rather than the state-owned limousine. Your reference, nevertheless, was to the wrong Governor. Russell W. Peterson is the former Delaware Governor who traded in his limousine for a Ford Pinto in his new role as head of the Council on Environmental Quality in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 21, 1974 | 1/21/1974 | See Source »

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