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  • Besides them were several young men dressed in strangely fitting clothes of the nineteen-fifties.

    Untitled NaNo Project Ingrid K. V. Hardy 2011

  • In the nineteen-fifties, they went transcontinental.

    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Skin Deep Jerome Preisler 2010

  • I found it particularly interesting when Mr. Daniels described the glory days of the nineteen-fifties when people looked after each other.

    Stealing Candy Allison Hobbs 2010

  • I found it particularly interesting when Mr. Daniels described the glory days of the nineteen-fifties when people looked after each other.

    Stealing Candy Allison Hobbs 2010

  • This was in the late nineteen-fifties and early nineteen-sixties, in the rural village of Sonobe, about thirty miles northwest of Kyoto, in a river valley surrounded by wooded mountains.

    VIDEO GAME ART: Shigeru Miyamoto, The Man Behind Nintendo's Mario newyorker.com 2010

  • It certainly was getting with the nineteen-fifties program.

    Silver Zombie Carole Nelson Douglas 2010

  • The chairs are plastic, very nineteen-fifties, patterned with shapes that look sometimes geometric, sometimes almost human.

    The New Yorker Stories Ann Beattie 2010

  • Hofstadter believed that status politics replaced interest politics during periods of prosperity, like the nineteen-twenties (the return of the Klan, Prohibition, the Scopes trial, etc.), and the nineteen-fifties and sixties (McCarthyism and the rise of the new right).

    The challenge of populism Stephen Retherford 2009

  • Hofstadter believed that status politics replaced interest politics during periods of prosperity, like the nineteen-twenties (the return of the Klan, Prohibition, the Scopes trial, etc.), and the nineteen-fifties and sixties (McCarthyism and the rise of the new right).

    Archive 2009-03-01 Stephen Retherford 2009

  • She grew up in Brooklyn sometime in the nineteen-fifties and graduated from Yale in the class of 1963.

    Catalogue of an Exhibition | clusterflock 2009

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