1970s

alternative 1970's

1. pluralplural onlyThe decade beginning in 1970 and ending in 1979.

   Sandra used to be a regular club-goer with her husband and two young sons in the 1970s.

   2012, Ruth Cherrington, Not Just Beer and Bingo! a Social History of Working Men's Clubs, →ISBN, page 95

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   Joybubbles (the legal name of the former Joe Engressia since 1991), a blind genius with perfect pitch who accidentally found he could make free phone calls by whistling tones and went on to play a pivotal role in the 1970s subculture of “phone phreaks,” died on Aug. 8 in Minneapolis. […] Well before the mid-1970s, when digitalization ended the tone-based system, Joybubbles had stopped stealing calls.

   2007 August 20, Douglas Martin, “Joybubbles, 58, Peter Pan of Phone Hackers, Dies”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 12 Feb 2022

   The production on “Liverpool 8” has the heft and definition of modern multitracking, resembling Mr. Starr’s early-1970s hits rather than the Beatles themselves.

   2008 January 14, Jon Pareles, “New CDs”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2021

   On the Alxa Plateau of Inner Mongolia, Gaxun Nur Lake (262 km²) dried in the 1970s and the Sogo Nur Lake in the 1980s.

   2008, Robert Jellison, William D. Williams, Brian Timms, Javier Alcocer, Nikolay V. Aladin, “Salt lakes: values, threats and future”, in Nicholas V. C. Polunin, editor, Aquatic Ecosystems: Trends and Global Prospects, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 99, column 2

   The sysprogs of the 1970s and early '80s also tended the mainframe as it shook and rattled incongruously on the edge of Dartmouth's Colonial campus.

   2017, Virginia Heffernan, Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art, page 19

   Wildlife biologist Stanley Temple hypothesised that perhaps the dodo tree was dependent on its seeds passing through the digestive system of dodos in order to properly germinate and that the handful of individuals in the 1970s were the last remaining trees from seeds that passed through a dodo in the 1690s-1700s when they went extinct.

   2017 May 3, Mark Carnall, “Finding zombies, ghosts and Elvis in the fossil record”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2022

   Synonyms: '70s, 70s, seventies, Me Decade