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Word: spiral (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decided to make a gelandy over a tree stump when I found myself in a mogul field, so I used my avalement and then tried an old-fashioned ruade, but caught an edge, slipped out of my toe piece, helicoptered down the fall line and wound up with a spiral in the tibia."* Besides, there is the legendary ambience of après-ski, which has become something of a hedonistic cliche but keeps attracting people with its roaring hearth fires and hot spiced wine in the lodges, its hard rock and casual flirtation in the bars. Still another lure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Skiing:The New Lure of a Supersport | 12/25/1972 | See Source »

...steam, whether in Munich or Los Angeles, Paris or New York; the turnover of styles and theories that gave the 1960s their racketing ebullience (Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, Op, Pop and so on) has been followed by a sluggish descent into entropy. There seems to be no escape from that spiral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Decline and Fall of the Avant-Garde | 12/18/1972 | See Source »

After a scoreless third quarter, Lynch threw a 35-yard spiral to Fran Cremia for a Crimson score. Lynch's conversion gave Harvard a 14-6 edge over the Elis. But Yale's offensive squad deadlocked the score, 14-14, with a five-yard touchdown pass from McAndrews t John Fenick and a successful two-point conversion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardlings Crush Yale, 28-14 Kickoff Runback Sinks Elis | 11/25/1972 | See Source »

...wages and 5% for overall prices. That those high figures would represent a lessening of inflation shows how dizzying the wage-price spiral is in Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INFLATION: The Phase I Chill in Britain | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

Younger women notables include Naomi Savage and Judy Deter Savage's "St. Brigid Passion Week becomes a spiral of hide and seek with a black robed, virgin-like bust appearing in whole and in cut sections against greyish-white rectangular backgrounds that overlap and revolve around the center. She takes a negative and pasts up a college of this repeated image. For her, this black shape becomes an icon, indestructible, despite efforts to cut it up and change its positions...

Author: By Meredith A. Palmer, | Title: The Art of Baring Humanity | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

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