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Word: stadiums (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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What's more, everyone who uses them would like to use them a lot more if so many other people didn't want to use them too. The result: crew members run tours of the stadium instead...

Author: By Lillian C. Jen, | Title: Where Have All the Oarsmen Gone? | 12/10/1976 | See Source »

Imagine that you have the choice of any seat in the stadium of the Yale game and, lacking the smarts to pick one next to President Bok on the 50-yard line, you decide to consider the view of the Veritas in the center of the field from every possible angle and height in half an hour or less. That is what is known as a tour, and as any oarsperson knows, a tour has 37 stadia. (There are 37 sections.) Calling them stadia (rather than stadiums) makes doing them sound refined-but even stadia produce sweat in considerable quantities...

Author: By Lillian C. Jen, | Title: Where Have All the Oarsmen Gone? | 12/10/1976 | See Source »

Fluttering above a crowded football stadium in Corvallis, Ore., two male tussock moths, ignoring thousands of fans, make a beeline, so to speak, toward Gary Daterman and begin circling his head. Other moths are continually drawn to the steering wheel of Daterman's auto, his clothing and almost anything he touches. In fact, Daterman has become irresistible to moths during the mating season. Their infatuation with him is a hazard of his job: to devise cunning new forms of biological warfare against insects (TIME cover, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Flame to the Moth | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

...Minute Warning is a movie full of clocks, not people. It is hardly enough that the sniper has hidden himself in an inaccessible perch above the stadium Scoreboard. From there, armed with his Remington 742, he can draw a fine bead through his telescopic sight on any of the 92,000 assembled fans, among whom are the mayor of L.A., the Governor of California, the President of the U.S. (who is en route) and Merv Griffin (who opens the football game by delivering the national anthem as if it were a carton of half-and-half). Not even all this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Beat the Clock | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

...drama in the stands: Will Car Salesman David Janssen stop treating Mistress Gena Rowlands mean and marry her? Will Gambler Jack Klugman, way in the hole and threatened with immediate extinction unless his debts are settled, beat the point spread? Most of all, will Good Cop Charlton Heston and Stadium Manager Martin Balsam be able to neutralize the sniper without having to turn to the dire methods of Tough Cop John Cassavetes and his blood-hungry SWAT team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Beat the Clock | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

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