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We Americans of the Fifties 'Final Year --- Transition to the future yahooBuzzArticleHeadline =' We Americans of the Fifties\ 'Final Year --- Transition to the future'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: On this the 50th anniversary of the high school class of 1959 we look back at where we were then to what we have become.
We Americans of the Fifties' Final Year---Transition to the future 2009
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The story told here in Florida by my father, who was once counsel to the Speaker of the House in the Fifties, is that a Lawyer Legislator had a client who had to go through divorce proceedings to dissolve what the court declared to be a common law marriage when the client thought he was only shacking up.
The Volokh Conspiracy » It’s Spring, So It’s Time for a Romantic Story About Love and Marriage 2010
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The American Dream of the Fifties is simply not possible in the Twenty-First Century for the vast majority of Americans, and as a result, we have kids growing up essentially without parents.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - For the ExtraLife Fathers & Mothers 2007
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A wad of extra birthday cash inspired me to go to amazon. com and purchase the book Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in Fifties Animation written by Amid Amidi of Cartoon Brew and Animation Blast magazine.
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A wad of extra birthday cash inspired me to go to amazon. com and purchase the book Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in Fifties Animation written by Amid Amidi of Cartoon Brew and Animation Blast magazine.
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Now we have Fred Kaplan's enlivening 1959: The Year Everything Changed, which really could be called The Fifties, but that was already taken by journalist David Halberstam's fine historical account in 1993.
Tom Alderman: 1950s: The Not-So-Silent Generation Tom Alderman 2010
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The decade of the Fifties was a decade of truly great achievements.
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In fact, the only thing that kept men slightly respectable in the Fifties was the fact that there was no Pill.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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People think the Fifties were a very difficult time for a woman in the workplace, and you had to be very ambitious; but it wasn't the case at all.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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In fact, the only thing that kept men slightly respectable in the Fifties was the fact that there was no Pill.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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