fifties

• “A lot of the cumulative brain trauma leaves players demented in their fifties is actually sustained during practice.”

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• “Another reason we are so down on the fifties is our reverence for the sixties.”

  Inventing the Victorians - and the 1950s

• “Synthetic phonics, which I have taught continuously since Training College in New Zealand in the fifties, is simply fast phonics to fabulous reading.”

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• “A Tel Aviv man in his late fifties is living with 32 women with whom he has fathered 89 children, an Israeli television station revealed last week.”

  Goel Ratzon: Tel Aviv man has 32 women and 89 children

• “The curb-side service developed in the fifties is still an important part of their customer service today.”

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• “What was great about the fifties is that for one brief moment – maybe, say, six weeks – nobody understood art.”

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• “One year I went with a GI that had twin fifties on a 20 ft john boat.”

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• “Of these, I only have _The Great Hegedus_ (Fagius Books, undated but fifties from the look of it).”

  Emerson LaSalle, R. I. P.

• “A shabbily dressed man in his late fifties is lugging a huge holdall down towards the hall, accompanied by a tall, muscular, Head-of-the-School-and-Captain-of-Everything type.”

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• “While women born in the 1940s may not be old by Western standards, in rural Mozambique a woman in her early fifties is considered more or less old (especially if she is a widow) because she is usually already a grandmother and can no longer be included in the next-junior category of adult women, tinhlangwana (sing. nhlangwana, referring to women who still have young children).”

  Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique

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