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Word: riggings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they are driving through wheatfields in their truck. Because little Superman has a denser molecular structure, he shows his powers at once. His landing has blown one of the Rents' tires, and the superboy helps out his new, adoptive father by lifting up the whole rear of the rig for the wheel change. At school, Clark, as he is called, can kick a football into the next county. When he is 18, he discovers a magic crystal that Jor-El had put in his crib and is able to talk with the spirit of his dead father, who reveals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Here Comes Superman!!! | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...Christmas catalogue. Among this year's offerings: a professionally filmed documentary of your life for $50,000, a private island and lighthouse in the Pacific for $750,000, your wife's weight in loose 10-carat diamonds at $4 million per lb. and an offshore oil rig, capable of drilling in 300 ft. of water, for $28.7 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANA: That's the Way It Isn't | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...Time contains deft insights ("I can't believe how love lasts a while/ And looks like forever in the first place") and the occasional turns of phrase ("In the field of opportunity/ It's plowing time again") that grate and shudder like bad brakes on a heavy rig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dylan and Young on the Road | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...SWAPO refuses to participate in such an election, the biracial Democratic Turnalle Alliance, which South Africa created and still dominates, would be virtually assured of victory. Third World nations regard such a voting arrangement as worthless-a view increasingly shared in the West. "You don't try to rig an election or rush it," said British Foreign Secretary David Owen. Botha's angry reply, reportedly delivered in a tense negotiating session: "Don't you try to lecture me about democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAMIBIA: Buying Time | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...Victoria, Texas, reports $15,000 worth of gear stolen this year; latest loss: a $1,200 pair of 60-lb. elevators used to pull pipe. Says Alcorn Vice President Jimmy Hendrix: "Just about dang near every weekend somebody gets hit. They come in after dark, strip your rig, and we never recover anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Midnight Oil | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

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