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Word: playground (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even if the land were declared not to be a park, the presence of a playground on the tract would prevent the land from being used for building unless the playground land was declared excess by the courts...

Author: By David J. Wlody, | Title: Suit to Save Park Will Proceed Despite Court Loss | 10/26/1976 | See Source »

That's only the beginning. The probable starting five of JoJo White, Charlie Scott, Dave Cowens, Havlicek, and Wicks is no dream lineup--it's a playground nightmare...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: B.S. on Sports | 10/14/1976 | See Source »

Shoppers also have at their disposal 32 restaurants, two movie theaters and a rooftop playground where they can deposit their children. On the fourth floor, Mitsukoshi sells life insurance and $600 package funerals that come complete with a graveside service conducted by a Buddhist monk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAILING: Sincerity for Sale | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

Bugsy Malone's real location is in a perfect playground of the imagination, and its plot is a loose arrangement of recognizable types and classic sequences. Long-lashed Bugsy (Scott Baio) is a good-natured mug who hangs around the speakeasy run by Fat Sam (John Cassisi). The saloon's songbird in residence, Tallulah (Jodie Foster), cracks plenty wise but is kind of sweet on Bugsy, who has eyes only for Blousey (Florrie Dugger), a girl with heavy Hollywood ambitions. Meantime, Dandy Dan (Martin Lev) is muscling in on Fat Sam's territory, making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Little Caesars in Never-Never Land | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

...Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, a city of 60,000 in the Carpathian Mountains, Comaneci began her training with Béla Károlyi and his wife Marta, the gymnastic coaches at a special sports lycée in her home town. They had spotted her frolicking in a kindergarten playground and been impressed by her lack of fear. She was six years old. "At first it was like a game," said Nadia last week, showing no trace of nostalgia for those presumably more carefree days. "But by the age of eight," Coach Károlyi noted, "the students must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OLYMPICS: The Games: Up in the Air | 8/2/1976 | See Source »

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