• 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.

    NEWYORKER: Master of Play

  • The film is set in a bleak, gossip-ridden Northern Irish town in the early sixties.

    NEWYORKER: The Butcher Boy

  • Among my favourite parts of the book is Mr Mehta's early life in London in the swinging sixties as a callow young man, who arrives from India with a few shillings and bags of Indian tea.

    BBC: Vinod Mehta memoir a rare and salacious Indian tell-all

  • In the early sixties, I remember a 15 cent equivalent and everyone gamed the system.

    FORBES: Venezia, Still My Favorite Leading Indicator

  • These events in the early sixties became a civil-rights war that engulfed the South for the rest of the decade and it happened without e-mail, texting, Facebook, or Twitter.

    NEWYORKER: Small Change

  • They had read the same essential sources particularly the work of Philipp Reis, the German physicist who had come startlingly close to building a working telephone back in the early eighteen-sixties.

    NEWYORKER: In the Air

  • When the repeals finally came, in the early nineteen-sixties, Hancock staked his claims and, after more rounds of badgering, persuaded mining executives from Britain and the United States to invest in the Pilbara.

    NEWYORKER: The Miner��s Daughter

  • In the early sixties, he received a Ph.

    NEWYORKER: Trial by Fire

  • Malcolm, who achieved fame in the early sixties as a compelling spokesman for the black-pride philosophy of the Nation of Islam, is an unlikely hero for a big-studio prestige picture: he begins as a predatory street criminal, becomes a studious Muslim ascetic, and fulfills himself as a scourge.

    NEWYORKER: Malcolm X

  • In the early nineteen-sixties, two psychologists, David Palermo and James Jenkins, began amassing a huge table of word associations, the first thoughts that come to mind when people are asked to reflect on a particular word. (They interviewed more than forty-five hundred subjects.) Palermo and Jenkins soon discovered that the vast majority of these associations were utterly predictable.

    NEWYORKER: Groupthink

  • According the Board, almost two-thirds of Americans between the ages of 45 and 60 are planning to delay their retirements past the traditional period of exiting the workforce in their early to mid sixties, likely as a result of the continuing impact of the weak economic environment on their finances.

    FORBES: Can We Really Delay Retirement?

  • The early nineteen-sixties were a turbulent time in American politics, for the right wing in particular.

    NEWYORKER: Confounding Fathers

  • Business cycles, particularly in the sixties and early-seventies, were vicious.

    FORBES: Management Guidance Is Mostly Worthless

  • It was in the fifties or early sixties, she would recall, though she could not remember exactly how old she had been when she arrived with her mother and the rest of her large family, though not her father, whom she did not know and had never met.

    NPR: One Boy's Heroism in the Face of AIDS

  • This harks back to the New Realists school unfolding in France, late fifties, early sixties.

    FORBES: My Leading Indicator Is Art In Venezia

  • Now the problem comes, of course, because the closer you are to pension age, the more you hit the sort of cliff face, as it were, and somebody at 59 or in their early sixties with a 65 year old pension age is literally in no really different position than a pensioner.

    BBC

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