Example Sentences

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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

The pictures on the wall were all from the Fifties, and a group of us girls would go and get our hair done in crazy bouffants.

From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2018

After the revolutionary period of the Fifties and Sixties, society regrouped itself, as always, into High, Middle, and Low.

From "1984" by George Orwell