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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
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In the nineteen-fifties, they went transcontinental.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Skin Deep Jerome Preisler 2010
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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
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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
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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
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It certainly was getting with the nineteen-fifties program.
Silver Zombie Carole Nelson Douglas 2010
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The chairs are plastic, very nineteen-fifties, patterned with shapes that look sometimes geometric, sometimes almost human.
The New Yorker Stories Ann Beattie 2010
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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
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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
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She grew up in Brooklyn sometime in the nineteen-fifties and graduated from Yale in the class of 1963.
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