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How to use the word seventies in a Sentence?

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From the very beginning, as the also-ran team in the Bay Area, representing an industrial multiracial town lying a couple of bridges away form a gentrified cultural capital, Oakland Raiders appeared to underclasses, in the seventies, when the team was half African-American, the stands in the Coliseum were equally black and white, and the tailgating parties the players joined in on after every game in the parking lots were always multiracial.

Peter Richmond

Found on CNN
2 years ago

People don't realize in the seventies and eighties how dangerous it was in Los Angeles, i remember when( my parents) used to complain that police don't care about our neighborhood.

Melina Abdullah

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I come back to when I was younger in Rome around the seventies, eighties, because it was an important moment of my life... with important issues like the liberation of women.

Maria Grazia Chiuri

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

For the bulk of my life, I would say up until my seventies, I spent my life like a double image, like a double exposure, as an adolescent, in order to fit in, I made sure no one especially boys or men could see who I really was ; that I could get really angry, that I could not be pretty, that I could be tough. I went through life not whole.

Jane Fonda

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

It was interesting to play sober, we're weaving( guitar parts) a lot more conscientiously now. We're much more aware of the gaps and the spaces between. We're in our seventies, but we're still rocking like we're 40-year-olds, you know ?

Ronnie Wood

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Now, if we find remains dated from the seventies or eighties, we deploy anthropologists, archaeologists, geneticists, forensic photographers - a multidisciplinary team.

Patricio Bustos

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There was no bigger album of 2014 -- in terms of surprise, generosity and controversy, bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. put their lives on the line: giving away 11 songs of guitar rapture and frank, emotional tales of how they became a band out of the rough streets and spiritual ferment of Seventies Dublin.

Rolling Stone

Found on CNN
9 years ago

“Until my sixties, my life was just like I was swimming in the mud. It was in my seventies that the flowers began to bloom a little and the spring of youth began.”

Chikabo Kumada

added by anonymous
9 years ago

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

P. G. Wodehouse

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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