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As recently as the nineteen-sixties, for reasons of history and origins, the Democrats were a stapled-together collection of Southern reactionaries, big-city hacks, and urban and agrarian liberals; the Republicans were a jumble of troglodyte conservatives, Yankee moderates, and the odd progressive.
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But you know in the nineteen-sixties when I was drafted in the military, he got several deferments.
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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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I was a camper at Hilltop camp in Spring Green in the nineteen-sixties and early seventies.
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Id rustled up some stretchy double-knit nineteen-sixties slacks and a glittery tube-top, and then added gray-tinted heart-shaped sunglasses to subdue the color of my eyes.
Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009
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Sitting in this nineteen-sixties meld of blue and green furniture against silver and ice-white, I let my cloak fall back to swathe the chair behind me and studied the holographic photos of motion picture stars on the wall.
Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009
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Growing up as I did in the nineteen-sixties, I heard often the voice of Walter Cronkite in my living room, a voice I still associate with grownups and the news, an alphabet ofangst, with everything that spells disaster.
Me, Watching 2009
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Id rustled up some stretchy double-knit nineteen-sixties slacks and a glittery tube-top, and then added gray-tinted heart-shaped sunglasses to subdue the color of my eyes.
Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009
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“EEG studies going back to the nineteen-sixties have shown diffuse slowing of brain waves in prisoners after a week or more of solitary confinement,” Gawande writes.
Solitary Confinement In U.S. Prisons Making Thousands Psychotic 2009
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Reagan's career as a screen actor was pretty much kaput by the mid nineteen-sixties.
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