Fifties Sentence Examples

They were only here four or five years in the late fifties, Charlie said.

The feed store lasted into the fifties.

There were wide eighteenth- century ball gowns, women in little black dresses, one in a fifties poodle skirt, and several in dark dresses with ornate brocade on the bodice, like that of wealthy Middle Age royalty.

If you keep on waiting, you're going to be having children in your fifties, like your parents.

Dean and Sackler drove about a mile down old Route 22 to a chrome and Formica railroad-car diner straight out of the fifties.

He didn't want to wait until he was in his fifties to start having children.

There was an Indian church in Natick, at what is now called South Natick or " Oldtown," from 1660 to 1716; and for some years the community was governed, in accordance with the eighteenth chapter of Exodus, by " rulers of tens," " rulers of fifties," and " rulers of hundreds."

The discovery and recognition of the males was made, however, at the close of the fifties.

In the early fifties of the 19th century the taste for mountaineering rapidly developed for several very different reasons.

The period of the hot winds, called the khamsin, that is, the fifties, is calculated from the day after the Coptic Easter, and terminates on the day of Pentecost, and the Moslems observe the Wednesday preceding this period, called Jobs Wednesday, as well as its first day, when many go into the country from Cairo, to smell the air.

But the situation was also remarkable because power thus definitely passed from men who, without exception, had been born in the 18th century, and had all held cabinet offices before 1832, to men who had been born in the 19th century, and had only risen to cabinet rank in the forties and the fifties.

This could lend weight to the idea that the French Army had maintained some of the fortress artillery in the fifties.

There's a Fifties feel to the bar with its old fashioned radios and general bric-a-brac.

He's not, setting out afresh in his late fifties, intent on storming the citadels of yesteryear.

From the late fifties the mill was used just for rearing pigs, garaging farm machinery, and housing the grain drier.

Scarlett creates the fifties look in her sparkling, show stopping, red carpet outfits by teaming pearl necklaces with sparkling diamond earrings.

The early fifties was a period of enormous intellectual ferment.

The second man was a white male in his fifties with gray hair.

As the " Fifties " ended, Craftsman introduced this ball-bearing headstock, 12-inch wood-turning lathe.

During the communist insurgency of the fifties the infamous ' bamboo trail ' ran through the forest of Belum.

I wore a green goalkeeper's jersey and was the successor to Stan Hanson in the great Bolton Wanderers team of the nineteen fifties.

Another thing, forget about ceramic magnets on your speakers, to be Fifties you'll need the good ole blue cobalt stuff.

The general idea was made rigorous in flat space-time in the early fifties by A. S. Wightman.

In your fitted kitchen, choose Formica tabletops for an instant fifties feel.

Most men are reaching the zenith of their career in their fifties yet rarely have time to keep their bodies in shape.

Householders have not experienced sustained capital losses on housing since the fifties and arrears and possessions have reached unheard-of levels.

Old style fifties rock n roll, very entertaining hearing them do this, especially the attempted doo wop style backing vocals !

In the fifties and sixties beauty marks were a real sign of sex appeal.

Fifties Web - The stars' birth names are organized alphabetically in three sections here, and the focus is on older actors from the silver screen.

More intense activities may include a water ballet contest or Fabulous Fifties sock hop.

The fact is, senior centers are popular with seniors of all ages, from those in their fifties to those in their eighties or even nineties.

Fifties Web has an array of turning 50 jokes and resources for those in their fifties.

It's also easy to find them within the selections at Fifties Frames and Eyeglass Boy.

The roaring twenties and thirties became the conservative forties and fifties.

This condition is called presbyopia, and most people experience it in their forties or fifties.

Almost everyone needs reading glasses by the time they are in their forties or fifties.

A flapper bob, seventies braids, or fifties beehive hairdo can make you the belle of the vintage ball.

A fifties style suit can be surprisingly flattering.

You can purchase many types of votive holders that were originally from the fifties and sixties on auction sites and at stores that specialize in vintage goods.

Florida temperatures can dip into the fifties at night.

Fifties' theme - Kids dress up in their favorite fifties' clothing.

Another branch of the sci-fi/horror genre in the fifties was the McCarthyism influenced "red under every bed" picture.

Bollywood babes are important to Bollywood movies because Bollywood today is a lot like Hollywood of the forties and fifties.

Early on they introduced a retro, fifties style that was a big hit with consumers, and before long, the company was successful.

Initially the company focused on bringing stylish, low cost watches with a fifties feel to the market, in an effort to draw customers looking for good value.

Fossil took inspiration for some of the watch designs from the popular fifties Americana.

A throwback to the glamorous fifties, this Love Doves teddy, designed by Sista Shei, is enhanced by girly details like chiffon ruffles and satin ribbons.

Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) is considered (with good cause) one of the writers of science fiction's Golden Age, that period of ferment that spanned the fifties and sixties.

The Venice of the fifties, and the characters that inhabit the boardwalk, make for a moody, almost 'noir' setting, and the characters, without being hard-bitten and cynical, would not be completely out of place in a Bogart movie.

Also in the fifties, Bradbury published Dandelion Wine (1957), a novel that is neither science fiction, fantasy nor mystery, but simply a strangely beautiful remembrance of life in a small Illinois town.

While sci-fi movies of the fifties typically employed robots as threats to either the individual characters or to mankind writ large, the literature and early TV presented much more benign views of robothood.