How To Use 1970s In A Sentence

  • There have been many histories of Jerusalem, from Jeremiah's sixth century B.C. monody to "For Jerusalem," a premature happy ending written in the 1970s by a successful mayor, Teddy Kollek. City of Peace—and War
  • Green styles this sequence like the opening credits of a 1970s cop show, freeze-framing on Chris as he leaps over a fence and zooming the titles across the screen.
  • Aerogels had been largely forgotten when, in the late 1970s, the French government approached Stanislaus Teichner at Universite Claud Bernard, Lyon seeking a method for storing oxygen and rocket fuels in porous materials. A Real Spinoff that NASA Has Seemingly Forgotten About - NASA Watch
  • Think of this as the obverse of 1970s-style stagflation, which brought us little or no growth, high inflation and high interest rates at the same time.
  • He founded his own business in the mid 1970s, and by 2004, at least fifteen master artists currently heading their own studios had apprenticed under him.
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  • Let's remember, for example, how much talk there was during the early 1970s when Olga Korbut performed the backward somersault in tuck position on the beam.
  • Inside, the walls were all plastered and painted pale colours with cream carpets - very novel for the early 1970s in Ireland.
  • In the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, cyclodiene insecticides provided effective control of wireworms. Southeast Farm Press RSS Feed
  • But rising gas prices in the 1970s forced the corporation to abandon the project.
  • Similarly Wang missed the gang era of the late 1970s and early 1980s when those children whose parents had been sent deep into the countryside for re-education formed their own cadres of street toughs.
  • Back in the late 1970s it languished at motoring's base camp, keeping company with much more mundane marques.
  • It was a return to the 1970s, blending Halston glamour with the sexual liberation of the trouser.
  • Within four minutes he has worked out that he bought a painting from my father-in-law in the early 1970s. Times, Sunday Times
  • The political anarchy (disorder) of the 1970s and 1980s has led to lawlessness in parts of the country.
  • I have something of a soft spot for early 1970s British bubblegum, and this is one of the best examples.
  • This is the exchange We made for the improvements from the 1970s. Improved Standard of Living, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • In stark contrast to its nature during the foundational period in the 1970s and early 1980s, the Commission in large measure both sets the Community agenda and acts as a power broker in the legislative process.
  • For example, a condom campaign in India in the 1970s involved renaming the product Nirodh from a Sanskritic word meaning “protection”. Diffusion of Innovations
  • Those of us who remember the 1970s recall the frolics sparked by America’s last great experiment with widespread price caps – namely, those on oil and natural gas. Day Two: the Speaker and House Majority Leader Back Away from ObamaCare | RedState
  • Descending downstairs feels like entering a 1970s vision of decadence – all red and gold sequinned drapes, geometric railings and carpeted walls. 10 of the best music venues in London
  • The dominant conifers are Abies faxoniana, Picea asperata, P. wilsoni and purple-coned spruce P. purpurea (which is also being planted) with a sub-canopy of Betula albo-sinensisB. utilis, low Acer spp. and fountain bamboo Fargesia/Sinarundinaria nitida which suffered a major die-off after flowering in the 1970s and early 1980s, Fargesia denudata and F. chinensis. Jiuzhaigou Valley Scenic and Historic Interest Area, China
  • Mr Lawson is right to say that deficits are more sustainable than they were in the 1970s.
  • The new buildings erected in the 1960s and 1970s were needed to accommodate the swelling numbers on the school roll.
  • The term Silicon Valley was coined in the 1970s and refers to the 50-mile stretch between San Francisco and San Jose, where companies such as National Semiconductor BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
  • The audio foreground, however, is dominated by the insipid, warbling, and off-key sound of Gareth Gates murdering a late 1970s disco classic.
  • As a psychologist, Bloom had studied what in the 1970s was considered not just sexual deviance, but mental imbalance.
  • Although rock had become mainstream by the early 1970s, it continued to arouse resistance and to elicit reproach - and continues, indeed, to this day.
  • She was an artist ahead of her time, a modernist who used minimalism and anticipated the reductivism of the 1970s.
  • Wear with a loose blouse for serious 1970s snap. Times, Sunday Times
  • The working class and the labour movement are not like they were in the 1970s.
  • This is cheesy, containing every cliche that we can imagine from 1970s Country.
  • Since the 1970s, the world had been dominated by two problems which, ironically, tended to cancel each other out.
  • The 1970s seemed to be the age of the groupuscules, the tiny, fissiparous radical activist groups which spread across Western Europe.
  • Actually it's called a monstrance and it contains a consecrated communion wafer (the big size that only priests get to eat), which by now has magically become the body and blood of Jesus Christ in the form of bread. (there was a time when people chopped each other's heads off over a disagreement about whether it contained any blood) "the abuse took place in the 1970s; the police were informed and acted" - Jack Valero RichardDawkins.net : The Latest Updates
  • The hostels for Gujjar students established during the tenure of Sheikh Abdullah in the late 1970s are far from adequate to meet the rising demand.
  • Even the worst footballers' perms of the 1970s could hardly compete.
  • The valley has hosted a mountain rosefinch population of about 150-300 breeding pairs since the 1970s. Breeding habitats for rosefinches consist of shrubby, mostly wet and humid meadows.
  • This self-abnegation from letters of the 1970s should be taken as sincere. The Times Literary Supplement
  • By the late 1970s, there were any number of places in San Francisco that gay men could go to have anonymous sex with dozens of partners anight. The Volokh Conspiracy » Here Comes the Soda Tax?
  • In several he looked like a 1970s football manager in his white panama hat and a sheepskin coat.
  • Back in the 1970s, its supporters were considered kooks and lunatics.
  • Designed in the 1970s, the Oberoi was the first of the luxury hotels to build lanais in the local vernacular, a style much copied by subsequent architects.
  • In several he looked like a 1970s football manager in his white panama hat and a sheepskin coat.
  • In the 1970s and 1980s, powerful oral and parenteral inotropic agents were developed to increase CO, but their use was associated with greater and earlier cardiac mortality, primarily due to sudden arrhythmic death.
  • Mr. Hall's pedigree is unusual for a politician: He was a member of the successful 1970s band Orleans, and was able to draw on a network of fellow musicians to raise campaign funds and raise his profile. Swing District in Motion Again
  • It revealed the cynical ways in which the "countercultural" music industry was transformed in the 1960s and 1970s by industry executives such as David Geffen and by performers such as Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. Trying to Find The Right Beat
  • Few would disagree that sitcoms have declined since their heyday in the 1970s. Times, Sunday Times
  • The only time I felt provoked to send him a strong punchy letter was when he flew out on a secret mission to China, in the early 1970s, as Nixon's special messenger.
  • But in the mid-1970s there was an acrimonious conflict between the different intelligence gathering agencies in the province.
  • Calling the long-awaited regulation a "landmark safety achievement" that resolves pilot-fatigue issues that have been festering since the 1970s, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on Wednesday said the changes were based on the latest scientific sleep research. FAA Mandates Longer Rest Periods for Pilots
  • And my 1970s haircut to hide the earpiece cable. Times, Sunday Times
  • In any event, for whatever reason, humanity first began to encounter the virus during the 1960s and 1970s.
  • They want to stop rebating the $16 billion annually from the stock transfer tax to Wall Street speculators; restore the progressive state income tax to levels from the 1970s; and raise $10 billion with a 50% bankers bonus tax. Alan Singer: New York Needs 50,000 Green Votes
  • In the 1970s, a third of drivers killed had drunk more than the law allowed. Times, Sunday Times
  • Lance Kerwin, who played the title teen in the 1970s-era series, received credit for time served and was sentenced to five years 'probation for falsifying information on an application to get state-provided medical benefits and food stamps on the island of E! Online (US) - Top Stories
  • Hundreds of fans rose to their feet to sing the 1970s crooner's most famous song.
  • As the offspring of parents who were highly crunchyin the 1960s and 1970s, Aaron could be described as a paisley diaper baby. Welcome to Aaron Delwiche
  • When he started in the late 1970s, he recorded deliveries on paper with triplicate carbons.
  • Sullivan writes that to focus narrowly on Khamenei and the Royal [sic] Guard, would put us in the same place we were in the 1970s: out of touch with the situation on the ground, and disconnected from the concerns of ordinary Iranians. Wonk Room » For More Tehran-ology
  • Mr Wood said most of the damage was done in the 1970s when he was working as a coalface worker and tunneller.
  • But Mr Trichet's concern is that higher headline rates could push up inflation expectations, leading to bigger pay demands, and so trigger a wage-price spiral, as in the 1970s.
  • The first spam was sent out by a marketing representative (who else?) for Digital Equipment Corporation, who was a leader in the microcomputer market back in the 1960s and 1970s. Five Things That Happened On May 3rd | myFiveBest
  • Before the onslaught of myxomatosis in the 1970s, rabbit was a common cheap food source used by all classes.
  • However, it wasn't until the early 1970s when sand started to dominate the mixture used to blend a topdressing material.
  • Japan's obsession with energy efficiency started when the oil shocks of the 1970s ended two decades of double-digit growth.
  • The international cocaine trade re-emerged in Colombia in the 1970s, courtesy of a mafia which cut its teeth on contraband whiskey, marijuana and luxury goods.
  • Pekerman was a journeyman professional whose playing career during the 1970s was cut short by a knee injury.
  • Now, every bloody tale from a slasher series such as Halloween to the video nasties of the 1970s can trace some element of their parentage back to Psycho.
  • By contrast, the ranks of subjects whom Andy represented, like himself, occluded and determinedly not smiling, is equally revealing, as if to conjure not so much by passive aggression as by vaguely sexualized sullenness, even vacancy, the dominant mood of international fame in the 1970s and early to mid-1980s. Archive 2009-01-01
  • When in the early 1970s structuralist approaches to understanding human behavior predominated, George mused about Mary Douglas's celebrated analysis of New Guinea subincision rites (the ritual splitting of the penis lengthwise) as an inscription of the bifurcated moiety system on the bifurcated body. Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco : The Fox
  • In the 1960s and early 1970s, inner city youth were targeted for induction into military service.
  • A brain drain blighted the Labour governments of the 1970s, as high earners were driven abroad by penal income-tax rates.
  • Portions of beaches from Florida to Maine where the hardiest of naturists ventured were taken over by nudes in noticeably greater numbers by the mid-1970s. A Renegade History of the United States
  • British politicians suffered a collective crisis of confidence after the disastrous attempt to turn lame ducks into national champions in the 1960s and 1970s. Times, Sunday Times
  • Fuel costs increased dramatically during the mid-1970s and have remained high ever since, and this adversely affects many old people.
  • What bothers me about remarks like Baucus's was that the Canadians had much the same type of deal going on as we have now when they implemented single-payer back in the 1970s, along with similar issues (i.e., how to implement the system within a federalistic system of government, etc). The American Prospect Articles
  • He studied law and was appointed ambassador to Paris in the 1970s.
  • By the 1970s, they were thought to be vulnerable to Soviet missiles and were supplemented by converted civil airliners, now 747 jumbo jets.
  • In the 1970s DSTO, with the strong support of the RAAF, pioneered the use of bonded carbon and boron fibre doublers to repair cracked metal structures.
  • The reaction against the neo-brutalism of the 1960s and 1970s was to embrace safe conformism instead.
  • Temple also notes that the tradition of making films about festivals, which reached its zenith in the early 1970s, has hardly produced a string of cinematic masterpieces.
  • The singing, including some golden oldies which date many fans as Stretford End and United Road veterans of the 1970s and 80s, have a joy, as well as defiance, about them. FC United of Manchester hope to make friends rather than millionaires
  • Best known Lock Stepper is Fred Barry aka Rerun from the hit 1970s black TV sitcom, What's Happenin '? simplest of daps is to tap closed fists together one time horizontally or vertically. Katie Halper: The Obama Pound: In Historic Moment, White People Exposed to "Fist Bump" for First Time
  • A Memphis institution in the 1960s and 1970s, the label nurtured and fostered the original generation of soul musicians. Raw Copy: A Week To Remember In Memphis
  • Ultrasuede: In Search Of Halston Appreciation of the 1970s fashion designer. This week's new films
  • In this group the rates have increased eightfold in men and almost sevenfold in women since the 1970s.
  • Todd Rundgren, a 1970s progressive rock musician with a loyal fan base, has become one of the first musicians to master the Internet as a means of fostering sales.
  • The economic orthodoxy of the 1970s could scarcely have been further removed from that of the 2000s. Times, Sunday Times
  • This, not very popular, livery continued for some time, but the buses began to look very grimy and in the late 1970s a variation of the former tram livery of predominantly green with cream relief was introduced.
  • Comedy spoofing the 1970s cop show. The Sun
  • The catalyst, which was first studied for use in catalytic converters in the early 1970s, includes the mineral perovskite with palladium.
  • He hit the big time in the 1970s with stuttering performances as he pretended to have a sound problem. The Sun
  • From confused childhood and angst-ridden teen years to life in repressed rural Ireland during the 1970s, Joseph ploughs on, always looking in from the outside.
  • The late 1970s saw an abrupt rightward shift in the attitude of the US on the world stage.
  • Then we can listen to figures who have been in cryogenic suspension since the 1970s. Archive 2005-05-01
  • It originally made nylon horse rugs but expanded its line in the 1970s to include Jackets and waistcoats. Times, Sunday Times
  • As a native of the area around Mobile, Alabama, a place long ridiculed by many as the nation's stepchild, it amused me that what was disdained as a redneck corner of the universe populated by ignorant and racist whites and besieged blacks became the "sunbelt" in the 1970s and as soon as those "cheeseheads" arrived in "crackerland" with no more need for their snowtires and discovered giant flying cockroaches and mildew among other horrors and complained mightily about the tropics they had naively sought, they became disenchanted. Lake Level Sucks 11-19-05
  • Industry in Britain has been in decline since the 1970s.
  • In the 1970s, health-food stores and organic farming were virtually synonymous with the vegetarian diet.
  • Oil companies were heavily criticized when they made large profits during the oil crisis of the 1970s.
  • Computer technology has come a long way since the 1970s.
  • Until the late 1970s, this annual event occurred with a minimum of publicity.
  • Schuette-Lihotzky did make women's lives a lot easier," Kinchin says, "but she has been criticized by feminist critics in the 1970s for actually isolating women in the kitchen.
  • Extra officers have been drafted in to re-examine original crime scene evidence and to use the Holmes computer, not available in the 1970s, to cross-refer statements and patterns against police databases.
  • Since the 1970s, he's helped to disinfest cities from Beijing to Dubai - Rudy Giuliani even hired him to clean up New York when he was mayor. Latest Marketing News On Marktd
  • Summit participants failed to anticipate the vast inflationary effect of the international oil crisis of the 1970s.
  • The group had the feel of a paramilitary unit when it used aggressive tactics to deal with the industrial disputes of the 1970s. Times, Sunday Times
  • Once upon a time, back in the late 1970s boom, when many of today's commentators, politicians, central bankers and trade unionists learned their economics, the economy could be allegorised as a fashionable restaurant.
  • What would have been considered light office banter in the 1970s is now grounds for a lawsuit. Times, Sunday Times
  • Famously banned from the BBC's Play for Today slot in the 1970s, Clarke's harrowing drama about life inside a borstal was remade two years later as an equally notorious film.
  • The first time I saw a wiglet, I was with my mom in a beauty parlor in the 1970s. I Maded You a Widget But I Forgotted It - A Dress A Day
  • In the 1970s, researchers discovered an endophyte in fescue that caused a disease called fescue toxicosis. TheHorse.com News
  • In the 1970s, there was even a double bass octet specialising in new music.
  • Indeed, avoparcin, a glycopeptide structurally related to vancomycin, was widely used in Europe as a growth promoter from the early 1970s until a recent ban due to the emergence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • There are also plenty of nostalgic nods back to Webb's 1970s childhood when eccles cakes were referred to as squashed fly cakes and bourbon biscuits were regularly remarked on as looking like something you might give to the dog. Food Britannia by Andrew Webb – review
  • These megalopolises have swelled with 100 million new residents since the mid-1970s.
  • During the commune heydays of the early 1970s, the ranch collected a typically renegade group of cultural misfits.
  • He was a familiar sight at Heaton's Corner in Castlebar back in the mid-1970s and 1980s.
  • Since Edinburgh's licensing laws were liberalised in the 1970s, Lothian and Borders police statistics indicate that late-night violence has escalated.
  • The term Silicon Valley was coined in the 1970s and refers to the 50-mile stretch between StarTribune.com rss feed
  • This company, in turn, departed, and by the 1970s, Millbottom had been partially converted for domestic use.
  • Exploration activity slowed during the 1970s.
  • But in the late 1970s it was home to a poltergeist who became world-famous.
  • I first came to Dublin via Belfast sometime in the early 1970s.
  • Advertising was practically never used, even in the early 1970s when the use of search by companies was much less widespread.
  • But in the 1970s, the double whammy of radio telescopy and a Mariner 10 flyby revealed a wealth of details needing names. Archive 2008-09-01
  • Major renovation work was done in the 1970s and both the main house and stone outbuildings have been re-roofed.
  • The late 1970s saw an abrupt rightward shift in the attitude of the US on the world stage.
  • The school was built in the late 1970s.
  • Then it argued that the poles were in fact replacements for much smaller, older concrete ones installed in the 1970s. Times, Sunday Times
  • He created the term by combining "cybernetics," the science of replacing human functions with computerized ones, and "punk," the raucous music and nihilistic sensibility that became a youth culture in the 1970s and '80s. Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
  • The core inflation measure made its debut in the early 1970s when the headline inflation rate was trending sharply upwards.
  • The interest in collisions of high-energy nuclei as a possible route to a new state of nuclear matter began with the emergence of QCD in the late 1970s.
  • Current and former CIA officers aware of the recent decision said the suspension reflects the CIA's fears of being accused of unsanctioned and illegal activities, as it was in the 1970s.
  • The death rate from alcoholic liver disease has increased eightfold in the 35-44 age group since the 1970s.
  • Alas, as the 1970s turned to the 1980s, the two major corporate publishers, Marvel and DC, turned their backs on the general audience -- especially children -- to saturate the emerging (adult) fan market flocking to comics specialty stores, and since the fan market wanted superheroes and more superheroes, that's what the Big Two, and a remora-school of wannabes, gave them. The Myth of the Fall of the American Comic Book
  • His effective rhetoric reassured a country unsettled by the tumults of the 1960s and 1970s and perceptions of American decline.
  • He was exposed to asbestos dust when working as a joiner in the 1970s on the construction of council housing.
  • The wearer didn't look like a fan of 1970s prog. Times, Sunday Times
  • Before establishing the poetry workshop Liz worked - in the late 1970s and 80s - as a peripatetic teacher of the deaf.
  • It was no mistake that the only decade to rival the 1930s in terms of prolonged market malaise was the 1970s, another era defined by interventionist wage and price policies.
  • The library was a commanding central presence on the campuses of the new universities built in the 1960s and 1970s.
  • Leather culottes, cropped denim flares, ripped jeans, a stylish 1970s suede midiskirt and silk duster coats all feature. Times, Sunday Times
  • The sharp rise of unemployment apparent from the 1970s was particularly harshly felt.
  • The fitness boom started in the 1970s.
  • This kind of result was obtained by Adichie, among other workers, in the late 1970s based on the contiguity techniques.
  • During the 1970s and 80s emphasis in basal whale research began to shift from Africa to Asia, at first because Sahni & Mishra (1972) described primitive whale remains discovered in India, and later as West (1980) figured and identified lower jaw specimens from Pakistan. Archive 2006-02-01
  • A large number of flint-working sites, producing long, slender flakes used for making tools and weapons, were found during archaeological survey work in the early 1970s.
  • What significance do you think Cockburn and Dearlove would attach to local politics in explaining the changes of the early 1970s?
  • At its worst, it combined the naivety of the 1960s, the anti-intellectualism of the 1970s and the ravenous greed of the 1980s.
  • Winter residents include large flocks of ducks, geese, and swans winter in the Sound. In West Haven, Connecticut 8,000 scaup (also called Broadbills or Bluebills) were regularly counted in the 1970s.
  • Such applications used mainly chrysotile or amosite, although crocidolite was commonly used in Europe, this practice was discontinued in the 1970s because of health concerns. Asbestos
  • Record players in a 1970s style fought a rearguard action against all things digital. Times, Sunday Times
  • One is white muslin from the 1920s and the other red satin from the 1970s, and they terrify me.
  • Many of the accused are alleged to have committed murder, kidnap and torture during the late 1970s.
  • Saudi Arabia, in company with some other Gulf oil states, is concerned to avoid any repetition of the two oil price shocks of the 1970s.
  • The urgency of chemical treatments in Nova Scotia emerged only in the subsequent budworm cycle, with the massive infestation of the early 1970s.
  • The treatment of diabetes reached a significant milestone in the 1970s.
  • In the early 1960s and 1970s and in the mid 1990s shrunken tight clothing often exposed the belly button.
  • " No man is an island ", warns the cliché, though Bob Quinn has affected a studied insularity since his first films in the 1970s.
  • But when prices collapsed in the mid-1970s there was little left but neglected farms and a once promising agricultural sector.
  • Technologies that helped rescue developing countries from famine in the 1970s have reached the point of diminishing returns.
  • Looking back to the 1970s and the heyday of income equality, the world was very different. Times, Sunday Times
  • In my view, the 1970s and perhaps early-to-mid 1980s represent the apogee of the Anthropology Department, if not the University of Sydney itself.
  • Garrett was best known as the flirtatious girl in love with the shy Sinatra in "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" and "On the Town," both in 1949, and later in life she became well-known to TV audiences with recurring roles in the 1970s sitcoms "All in the the Family" and "Laverne and Shirley. Chron.com Chronicle
  • Like the oil crisis of the 1970s, the California energy crisis is fueling an investment boom in alternative energy.
  • With Aintree announcing record attendances once again for its Grand National meeting, it seems hard to imagine that the famous steeplechase was perilously close to being axed as recently as the 1970s.
  • So it went through the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s and 1970s, when female film stars wrapped their chests in sackcloth lest they appear buxom, which was tantamount to being bourgeois.
  • Liberia was a major supplier of natural rubber to the United States until the 1970s, when prices plummeted due to competition from synthetics.
  • This is proof of the erosive effects of past inflation rate which climbed to banana republic levels in the 1970s.
  • Once widely used in over-the-counter products, hexachlorophene is now prescription-only, after overdose incidents in infants in France in the 1970s.
  • The majority of schools in the 1970s and 1980s still had some prefabricated buildings - cold, draughty, charmless boxes that always felt empty.
  • In the mid-1970s, he claimed to have received a calling from God to transform two acres of swampland on his property into a sculpture park, which he named Paradise Garden.
  • By the time environmentalism became a political force in the 1970s, dams were no longer considered an unalloyed public good.
  • Sunspot activity has been historically quite high since the 1970s, and if this correlates to climate as much data suggest, a fair amount of the warming attributed to CO2 forcing is actually due to solar cycles. Matthew Yglesias » Today in Pessimism
  • For those who can yet recall the backyard blast furnaces of Mao's China in the 1950s and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution to re-instill peasant values in the 1970s, the news was jarring.
  • The Dubna group had made fermium and rutherfordium this way in the 1970s.
  • Obviously, the term "trophy wife" meant something extremely different in the 1970s, when the film is set. Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Potiche
  • Adolfo Suarez supervised Spain's transition to democracy in the 1970s.
  • In the 1970s the Food and Drug Administration responded to public concerns by dramatically cutting back on the quantity of nitrates and nitrites that could be added to foods.
  • This is all the more so because the temporal setting of the film is the 1970s, a decade fraught with problems related to moral decadence.
  • In its 1970s heyday it drew an audience of 300 million. Times, Sunday Times
  • These theories (and remember, they are just theories) range from economic shocks like the oil crisis of the 1970s to changes in government policy.
  • In film portrayals of African Americans, by the early 1970s, the sexless and self-sacrificing characters played by Sidney Poitier during the civil rights era had been replaced by hypersexual superheroes who had achieved spectacular wealth by means other than “working for the Man.” A Renegade History of the United States
  • In the 1970s we could name six universities, the bottom few as comforting insurance in case you got lower grades than you hoped. Times, Sunday Times
  • Unless you're the Rolling Stones, or one of those forgotten relics of the 1970s schlepping round the nostalgia circuit, you don't tour for profit; you tour to promote your latest release.
  • The old 1970s TV recordings of his stories are worth downloading if you haven't seen them, although perhaps the most atmospheric way to experience one of his masterly bits of spookery is to go to one of actor Robert Lloyd Parry's superb solo performances as I did in January. A terrifying Christmas in prospect
  • By the 1970s, the Obscene Publications Squad was thoroughly corrupt. Archive 2004-06-01
  • Motown was particularly popular in the 1960s and 1970s.
  • By the 1970s primary teachers were being actively discouraged from teaching these fundamental disciplines - it seems educationalists threw out the grammar along with the grammar schools.
  • It shared the distaste of postmodernism for totalizing theory and it embraced the counterculture of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
  • In fact, when Canada unpegged its exchange rate with the United States in the early 1970s, the explicit policy reason for doing so was to allow the Canadian dollar to appreciate, and reduce pressure from rising U.S. inflation.
  • Its tough plastic casing has a steel handle that gives it the air of a 1970s ghetto blaster. Times, Sunday Times
  • By the mid 1970s, church growth was a hot topic. Christianity Today
  • This deficiency proved fatal when the dollar faced a prolonged confidence crisis in the early 1970s.
  • By contrast, the old stalwarts of the 1970s interviews are most definitely characters. The Times Literary Supplement
  • A former teacher and survivor of the Khmer Rouge, a regime that slaughtered more 20 percent of the Cambodian population in the 1970s, Kim sells sweet potatoes, redroot pigweed and tomatoes to Boston-based Tropical Foods and stores in The Seattle Times
  • But to a close-knit community not far from the city centre, Fietas was a thriving community and home to several thousands of coloureds, Malays, Indians and whites in the decades before the 1970s.
  • Since the early 1970s the incidence of breast cancer has increased by about 1% per year.
  • The annual congress has been held at the end of January since the 1970s. Times, Sunday Times

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