Another reason we are so down on the fifties is our reverence for the sixties. From Wordnik.com. [Inventing the Victorians - and the 1950s] Reference
One year I went with a GI that had twin fifties on a 20 ft john boat. From Wordnik.com. [...] Reference
The staccato of the turrets 'twin fifties vibrated throughout the airplane. From Wordnik.com. [Gotha - February 24, 1944] Reference
The curb-side service developed in the fifties is still an important part of their customer service today. From Wordnik.com. [The Five Best Burgers in Akron, Ohio | myFiveBest] Reference
Kind of scary to think that empirical logic was more generally accepted in fifties pop culture than it is today. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
What was great about the fifties is that for one brief moment – maybe, say, six weeks – nobody understood art. From Wordnik.com. [Combine] Reference
One in four women and one in five men in their fifties is a carer. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
These lenses are from the fifties is the quality good enough for a digital M?. From Wordnik.com. [News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)] Reference
And the fifties was the decade that had Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Eddie Cochran. From Wordnik.com. [Pop on Trial – the verdict « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog] Reference
I like the outside temp to be in the upper forties to low fifties, that is perfect. From Wordnik.com. [Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums] Reference
Your fifties are the decade during which, for men and women, things do tend to start to go wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Standard - Home] Reference
They included three men in their fifties, which is quite an young age for Chinese officers of that rank. From Wordnik.com. [The Times of India] Reference
RB: I had written the original piece in the fifties, which is what Copland heard when he came to Arizona. From Wordnik.com. [Opera Today] Reference
I recall the fifties being refered to as America’s biggest era of prosperity and growth. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Deficit Peacock Newt Gingrich Doesn’t Recognize His Own Feathers] Reference
After the early "fifties" came the continental influence of trade. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Influences in Canadian Development] Reference
His family came from Virginia in the 'fifties' to seek opportunities for their children. From Wordnik.com. [Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction Compiled and edited by Hallie Q. Brown 250 p., ill.] Reference
Later in the "fifties," after the coming of Principal Dawson, other forms of entertainment were added. From Wordnik.com. [McGill and its Story, 1821-1921] Reference
The fifties are the years of my life. From Wordnik.com. [Randy Susan Meyers: Pushed Out of the Age Closet] Reference
In Lake Hills, the fifties were a halcyon time. From Wordnik.com. [Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder] Reference
"fifties," but the faded woodwork of the nave was intact, and. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Broods] Reference
Suddenly I was in my early fifties and starting over. From Wordnik.com. [Virginia Bell: I'm Younger in My Sixties Than I've Ever Been Before] Reference
My father began experiencing bad angina in his fifties. From Wordnik.com. [Running The Mouse House] Reference
Moushinski, in his mid-fifties, has not been heard from since. From Wordnik.com. [Lost Lives] Reference
It was a thick wad of bills: tens, twenties, and some fifties. From Wordnik.com. [The Solution to All My Problems] Reference
"Early fifties, attractive in an Ed Harris kind of way," she says. From Wordnik.com. ["You Go"] Reference
Who do you want to be in your fifties, sixties, seventies and eighties?. From Wordnik.com. [Virginia Bell: I'm Younger in My Sixties Than I've Ever Been Before] Reference
I reached into my wallet, pulled out two fifties, stuffed them in their hands. From Wordnik.com. [Roadblocks and Riots] Reference
This was what reporters in the South must have faced in the fifties and sixties. From Wordnik.com. [Who Will Carry Us?] Reference
It was one of these offbeat jobs leftover from the fifties that had a diner in the back. From Wordnik.com. [Vitamins] Reference
One hundred pounds of litter in ten-pound bags, not two fifties — what do you think we are?. From Wordnik.com. [BOYS who DO the BOP] Reference
Raising the retirement age is an automatic cut for millions of workers in their fifties or sixties. From Wordnik.com. [Saul Friedman: Remembering A Man For All Seasons] Reference
The Preacher was a bony man in his late fifties, wearing a pith helmet to shield himself from the sun. From Wordnik.com. [The Naked Wedding] Reference
I'm in there looking at blankets, and Detlev holds up a little green paper packet with a picture of a fifties kind of lawn-mowing guy. From Wordnik.com. [Another Etiquette Lesson from the Jungle] Reference
A singular act by children of the fifties and sixties, Father inspired by stories from the TV to bring a little Breshnev into the home. From Wordnik.com. [The Nielsens (part one)] Reference
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