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Word: moms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jenkins' 1973 Chevrolet Vega does not look much different from the one that Mom drives to the supermarket, except for the hood-mounted air scoop and an outrigger in back to keep the front of the car from rising too high on takeoff. But Jenkins and his crew of six mechanics make sure that the resemblance is only paint-deep. To prepare the car for its ordeals, the team marinates its body in an acid bath to eat away 120 Ibs. of excess weight. The hood and rear deck are replaced with lightweight Fiberglas panels. His $70,000 engine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grumpy the Drag King | 10/22/1973 | See Source »

Marilyn Chambers, 21, the Mom on the Ivory Snow box and the star of hardcore skin flicks like Behind the Green Door, gained academic credentials this week. Manhattan's innovative New School for Social Research invited her to speak at the first session of its new course: "Pornography Uncovered, Eroticism Exposed." Some 550 students turned up to see Marilyn come clean. Instead they got a tepid interview session. (Q. "How do you do 30 or 40 takes of a scene in a skin flick?" A. "You don't.") Four officers from the morals squad were on hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 15, 1973 | 10/15/1973 | See Source »

...work all day running ski tows and Mom has to work half the night as a cocktail waitress to pay the taxes on what was once an inexpensive piece of property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: The New American Land Rush | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

...straws and the napkins," says Turner. "It cost a lot, but it was nothing compared with the repeat business we get because kids insist on going there." Indeed, not a few mothers have found that their children prefer Ray Kroc's burgers to Mom's own. "It's a fun place," says a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., 13-year-old. "It's like a circus. I feel happy here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: The Burger That Conquered the Country | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

Morrison has fallen back on his voice, and it's his best instrument. In the end, this one makes me want to go back and get those Ella Fitzgerald records away from Mom...

Author: By Freddy Boyd, | Title: You May Just Have to Break Out... | 8/7/1973 | See Source »

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