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  • I'd like to think I'm a click more clued in than the bobby-sox and heavy petting generation that hatched my parents.

    Lee Woodruff: The Nerds and the Bees 2008

  • The bobby-sox were all folded at exactly the same position on the shin.

    Blaze Bachman, Richard 2007

  • One or two were wearing nylons; the rest were in bobby-sox.

    Blaze Bachman, Richard 2007

  • For example, back in 1944 when my late mother-in-law was 14, she put on her bobby-sox and took the El down to the Chicago Loop at 9am to see Sinatra sing for 15 minutes.

    The Decline and Fall of the American Teenybopper: Steve Sailer 2004

  • For example, back in 1944 when my late mother-in-law was 14, she put on her bobby-sox and took the El down to the Chicago Loop at 9am to see Sinatra sing for 15 minutes.

    Archive 2004-12-05 Steve Sailer 2004

  • It was to honour an Italian boy from New Jersey named Frank Sinatra, the crooner who had become the idol of the nation's bobby-sox set. '

    Sinatra The Man Behind the Myth Taraborrelli, J. R. 1997

  • You'd have to assume Van's bobby-sox followers had either short memories or tin ears for comic timing.

    Greenbriar Picture Shows 2009

  • You'd have to assume Van's bobby-sox followers had either short memories or tin ears for comic timing.

    Greenbriar Picture Shows 2009

  • You'd have to assume Van's bobby-sox followers had either short memories or tin ears for comic timing.

    Greenbriar Picture Shows 2009

  • Everyone watch out, the 1950s bobby-sox generation is about to take over. "

    GOP Senator On Bush: Homina, Homina, Homina... 2009

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