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Word: ironical (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lukas Heller and David Goodman apparently drew their ideas from The Misfits and The Wild Bunch and hawg-tied them with early Zane Grey dialogue. The resulting wrangle is a tale of aging cowpokes in a changing West that ain't worth the price of a good branding iron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hawg-Tied and Saddle Sore | 10/26/1970 | See Source »

...election was postponed to give candidates time to submit statements of their views to the House Committee and to the House at large, DiCara said, He added that it also "gave the Committee a chance to iron out the bugs in the election process. So far we've been playing this mostly...

Author: By Lynn M. Darling, | Title: Quincy Reverses Decision, Will Send Students to CRR; Women Ineligible to Run | 10/24/1970 | See Source »

...with Dunster House, and the idea of an interior space gives the whole affair a kind of lumbering cosmic equilibrium. Terra cotta was the original choice for the exterior faces, and the texture which it would have provided might have prevented the tower from looking like a rouged waffle-iron...

Author: By Martin H. Kaplan, | Title: Mather Slouching Toward Alphaville | 10/23/1970 | See Source »

...attempt to iron out differences,the city of Cambridge and the MBTA have established a "cooperation agreement." All proposals and information will be channeled through one negotiator for each party...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Opposition Delays MBTA's Subway Addition | 10/19/1970 | See Source »

Died. Edward Wilson, 84, Scottish-born illustrator of more than 70 books, mostly classic adventure tales, beginning with Iron Men and Wooden Ships in 1924 and including such perennials as Two Years Before the Mast, Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Journey to the Center of the Earth; of heart disease; in Dobbs Ferry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 19, 1970 | 10/19/1970 | See Source »

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