Crossword clues for seventies
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Seventy \Sev"en*ty\, n.; pl. Seventies.
The sum of seven times ten; seventy units or objects.
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A symbol representing seventy units, as 70, or lxx.
The Seventy, the translators of the Greek version of the Old Testament called the Septuagint. See Septuagint.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1859 as the years of someone's life between 70 and 79; from 1837 as the eighth decade of years in a given century. See seventy.
Wiktionary
WordNet
n. the decade from 1970 to 1979 [syn: 1970s]
the time of life between 70 and 80 [syn: mid-seventies]
Wikipedia
"Seventies" is a song by Japanese dance unit, MAX. It is a Japanese cover of Italo disco artist Mega NRG Man's song of the same name. It was composed by Groove Surfers with Japanese lyrics written by Kazumi Suzuki. It was released as their fourth single and the original version of the song appears on the albums, Maximum (1996), Maximum Collection (1999) and Precious Collection 1995–2002 (2002). It was used in commercials for Japanese brand donuts Mister Donut. It was also the group's first top ten single debuting and peaking at #7.
Usage examples of "seventies".
For the first half of the seventies, however, there was a fight at every single Arsenal game I attended.
When Bertie Mee resigned in 1976, and his replacement Terry Neill bought Malcolm Macdonald for £333,333 from Newcastle, my devotion mysteriously resurrected itself, and I was back at Highbury for the start of the new season, as stupidly optimistic for the club and as hungry to see a game as I had ever been in the early seventies, when my obsession had been at fever pitch.
Players in the seventies weren’t as fast or as fit, and probably most of them weren’t even as skilful.
Brady and Rix missed theirs (some say that Rix was never the same again after the trauma of that night, and certainly he never recaptured his form of the late seventies, even though he went on to play for England), and that was that.
In my experience there was more violence in the seventies – that is to say, there was fighting more or less every week – but in the first half of the eighties, with Millwall’s F-Troop, West Ham’s Inter-City Firm (and the calling cards that these factions were reputed to leave on the battered bodies of their victims), the England fans and their alleged National Front agenda – it was less predictable and much nastier.
That, I think, is what happened with Chelsea and Millwall in the late seventies and early eighties.
Manchester City supporters in their mid-forties when the Blues last won the League in 1968 are in their early seventies now.
Whippets came about in the seventies when some kid took the time, used his imagination and figured out an entirely new way to get high.
That's how you gauged how good a concert was back in the seventies: how fucked up you were, right?
We did drugs for a couple of years back in the seventies and look at the clothes we ended up wearing.
Back in the seventies rehab meant you just stopped smoking pot for a couple of days, you know?
You know, this new MTV movement with these new bands that are trying to start a late sixties, early seventies retro thing again?
Eddie calculated that Ted was now in his late seventies, about Jimmy’s age.
Or let’s say you do it with some other old lady, some old dame in her seventies or eighties.
December was a pleasant month, with the afternoon temperatures often in the high sixties and low seventies, though at night it sometimes dipped close to freezing.