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“In some way, we’re in the early Cold War – the Fifties and Sixties, so a much rawer time.”

From BBC • Aug. 17, 2024

In 1958, he founded a poetry magazine, The Fifties, which survived to become The Sixties, The Seventies and The Eighties.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2021

“I visited with him and my aunt back in the Fifties and early Sixties.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 29, 2020

Contrast with the Fifties and Sixties when families with little were able to buy a first house or first car or first washing machine.

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2017

The two of them must evidently have been swallowed up in one of the first great purges of the Fifties.

From "1984" by George Orwell