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Word: spectacular (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Designed by a team of young New Yorkers who won the commission over much better known contestants, the present pavilion is a comedown of sorts from the spectacular cluster of airborne spheres originally proposed but ruled out by a congressional budget slash. But the design is still a spectacular achievement. From the air it may look like a king-size mattress pad, but from ground level the thing it most resembles is a moon crater roofed over with a shallow, translucent dome. The pavilion covers an oval area approximately the size of two football fields. Its solid, earth-filled walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Design for Osaka | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

...show also includes a bit of beautiful noise from Lena Home and Tony Bennett and some spectacular ballet by Edward Villella...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 21, 1969 | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...decals has been equally spectacular in promoting his product, a fuel additive. Twenty million people stick the decals to their windows, he said, because "maybe it's a legal way of saying Do you want to drag? among the nation's youth-people from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B-School Crowd Hears Auto Star On STP Story | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

With 4:31 gone in the final session, Bruno Vogt fired a spectacular centering pass in front of the Tiger net and smashed the ball home before it even touched the ground...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quakers Come From Behind to Defeat Princeton And Remain Tied With Unbeaten Crimson Booters | 10/30/1969 | See Source »

...commenting on his own play, Bob carefully selected his adjectives and answered, "nothing spectacular." How spectacular can trying to get hit by a ball be? In commenting on Gray's play coach Bruce Munro said, "He's had his ups and downs. He's played some real good games and he's had some lapses." Roughly translated, that means he sometimes gets hit with the ball...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Soccer Fullback Gray Embarrassed, But Not by Crimson's Shutout Streak | 10/25/1969 | See Source »

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