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Word: spectacular (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their favorites as big-league factory teams fought for that extra profit a racing victory always brings. Around and around the four-mile course, the world's best drivers gunned their big machines, each one perfectly tuned and tended by pit crews capable of performing mechanical marvels with spectacular ease. The speeds were startling, the promise of disaster ever present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Farewell to Put-Puts | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...Astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean enabled millions of listeners on earth to share their experiences as they walked and worked on the surface of the moon. But the failure of the color TV camera brought to the moon aboard the lunar module Intrepid deprived earthbound watchers of the spectacular sights that should have accompanied the sounds. Last week, while the astronauts remained in quarantine aboard the carrier U.S.S. Hornet, the world finally got a close-up view of the Ocean of Storms. Movie and still films brought back by the astronauts were flown to Houston, decontaminated, developed and released...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moon: A New View of the Ocean of Storms | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...Ocean of Storms and a solid cover of fine material deposits above. Lacking dampening fluids or gases, the layer of rubble may have acted as an echo chamber in which the seismic waves reverberated. If so, the next big seismic event on the moon should be a scientific spectacular; the third-stage rocket of Apollo 13's Saturn 5 will be sent crashing into the lunar surface, creating an impact equivalent to the explosion of 8½ tons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moon: A New View of the Ocean of Storms | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...there, it is met by a band of loving children who have succeeded in driving out the resident adults in order to "create their own fiction." But the misbegotten villain, greedy rancher Drag Gibson, slaughters the children and most of the circus, leaving only Loop Garoo to plot a spectacular revenge, complete with show-downs, hide-outs. Christ figures, and all the working magic of the American Hoo-Doo Church...

Author: By Lynn M. Darling, | Title: From the Shelf Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down | 12/2/1969 | See Source »

Coach Cooney Weiland had broken up last winter's spectacular sophomore line of All-American Joe Cavanagh. Steve Owen and Dan DeMichele early in preseason drills, and last weekend. each performer was skating with a different unit...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Hockey Team Rips St. Nicholas: Mark Scores Two In 5-2 Triumph | 12/1/1969 | See Source »

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