How To Use Fifties In A Sentence

Wellbrook was a chunky, solid man in his fifties with big bushy eyebrows. LET NOT THE DEEP
One can strip the fifties of its illusive aura of dull conformity without inflating cultural dissidence or generational muscle-flexing into political resistance.
He's maybe late forties, early fifties, bookish, greying, bespectacled, wispy - perhaps an academic.
Back in the early fifties people across the land followed the Redex trial intently, listening in for updates in the daily news broadcasts from their valve radiograms.
He's on the short side, round-faced, in his fifties, his brown ponytail's going gray. Pride of craft

To start with this is an unproven assertion based all too obviously on a cosy view of a mythical working class family from the Fifties.
His wife of twenty-two years is sitting catty-corner to him in a turquoise T-shirt with a tropical fish swimming across her chest; but her slim ankles are demurely crossed, the resting pose of one of those fifties starlets who swished around on-screen in full skirts, sheer hose, and kitten heels. THE HUSBANDS AND WIVES CLUB
Moondog is the ethereal moniker by which the Fifties Manhattan street musician Louis Hardin was known.
In the Fifties, at least one movie a week was a musical about a turn-of-the-century songwriter or singer.
More importantly, few if any stored samples go back farther than the mid fifties.
Women who'd long been pensioned off the catwalk are emerging reborn in their fifties and sixties, as coolly desirable, quietly, but confidently shimmering with big-name campaigns.
In the mid to late fifties, guys spent all their time souping up older cars with whatever parts they could find.
Again it was the auto industry that led the way in the early Fifties after suffering two costly setbacks.
However, these discoveries were soon forgotten and only after a long eclipse was interest in oncogenic viruses revived in the fifties. Renato Dulbecco - Nobel Lecture
To start with this is an unproven assertion based all too obviously on a cosy view of a mythical working class family from the Fifties.
Some time back in the `fifties, Enid said - when he was a Canon of Westminster. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
Her achievements are even more remarkable for the fact that she only embarked on a university education in her fifties.
Right now, the market is hungry for Italian art from the Fifties and Sixties, as well as the Futurists and such evergreens as Mario Sironi and Morandi.
He was probably in his mid fifties, with wiry build and silver hair.
But it's in their forties or fifties that many people also experience a unique moment of joyous relief. Times, Sunday Times
Richard Boone slaps leather in the classic fifties oater, Have Gun, Will Travel
A vintage white Ambassador - that lumpish fifties-era sedan still found throughout India's hinterland - creeps along within the bright human throng.
We talked a lot about Fifties-style acting, especially Montgomery Clift.
The grandedame gestures of the late fifties had gone, the overblown and icky sentiment had gone.
Now, alas, he is married and the nearest he gets to the fifties is his age - he's 45 and rising.
The great computer craze of the late fifties and the sixties is such a case. Atlantic Bloopers
My great aunts worked all through the fifties and sixties, on the farm or teaching school.
The early fifties are a difficult time for couples and women are often hit hardest. Times, Sunday Times
They also invested in specific items, including six retro chairs and a quantity of teak reclaimed from school science benches from the Fifties. Times, Sunday Times
He is a man in his fifties, as you know, portly and he gets seasick. LET NOT THE DEEP
From the late Fifties through the mid-Sixties their beginner's superhet was called the SimpleX Super, a 3-tube affair designed to cover just the 80M and 40M amateur bands.
I happened to notice a couple in their mid-fifties dancing alongside the bar stars, ravers, and sweaty topless men.
He was a stocky man in his fifties, with thin, gray hair. The Other Side of Me
One lady in her early fifties was flushed with delight. Times, Sunday Times
They, and the schools we went to, helped preserve a brown Fifties environment all through our early years.
Reputable companies supplying vintage spectacles from the fifties will be able to give an indication on how robust the frames are likely to be but it is likely that they too will be able to offer any cast-iron guarantees, for the same reason. Framed Vintage | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
But Turkish ladies of varying ages do tend to wear very lovely bright headscarves, far prettier than the headscarves as worn by Mrs Mop of the forties and fifties. Message from Istanbul
And by then, it's too late to retool - the opportunity costs of going back to school in your fifties are huge.
Synthetic phonics, which I have taught continuously since Training College in New Zealand in the fifties, is simply fast phonics to fabulous reading. Early Reading With Fun Phonics « Literacy Articles « Articles « Literacy News
Looking down through my mask at the ocean floor, I saw an old motorcycle, probably from the fifties.
Like some Fifties melodrama hero, Will is a lost lover returning from the past, none of the doors are expecting him, all are deadlocked.
Unsuccessful attempts to replace it were made in the fifties and sixties.
This is the sixteenth book by a woman whose name has become the byword for the authentic account of Irish living in the ‘Forties’ and ‘Fifties’.
Besides, Lawrence loves the music of the Fifties, and you get to wear fab frocks too.
In the late fifties when high pressure water was reticulated throughout Waimairi County use of the water wheel ceased and it fell into disrepair.
It should be noted, regarding Hammett's disinclination to sell out his employer in this story, that this desperately ill, lifelong claustrophobe, an old man at the age of fifty-seven, spent twenty-two weeks in federal prison during the Red-baiting fifties because he refused to give up the names of men who had trusted him. Locked Rooms
Perhaps an Easter egg hunt in the fifties.
When I was a kid in the fifties, the whole of our primary school would gather on the lawn while a bugle played off a scratchy record and the Head read the obligatory poem.
A Wall Street operator who was already in his fifties when he moved to London, Schechter is a prodigious talker, a showman and a financial wizard with a gift for innovation.
In the fifties, many Italians spoke only local dialect.
Dr. Palmer Kirby was a shy, serious, ugly man in his middle fifties.
In the fifties, sixties and early seventies John was an integral part of the art scene in his native Cork.
To be sensitive in the fifties was, almost by definition, to be a reader.
Ban-Lon shirts were the polo shirts of the fifties and came in thirteen colors. My Bat Boy Days
A Wall Street operator who was already in his fifties when he moved to London, Schechter is a prodigious talker, a showman and a financial wizard with a gift for innovation.
The materialistic generation, that in the fifties and sixties called his speculations fantastic, had been replaced by one with greater liberty of imagination, and a Preyer, a Wundt, a Paulsen, and a Lasswitz could now speak of Fechner as their master. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy
We are in our fifties and have this one grandchild. The Sun
Now in his early fifties, Jobs live quietly privately, with his wife and four kids in a large, unostentatious house in suburban Palo Alto.
A man in his fifties, with a bulging chin, wearing a checkered flannel shirt, came out. THE UNORTHODOX MURDER OF RABBI MOSS
Mostly in their fifties, the banañeros suffer from kidney failure, diminishing eyesight and bones that are weakening at the rate of octogenarians.
An unrepentant classic from a master technician who's been writing songs since the Fifties and still seems at the top of his game.
You hear softly piped Fifties swing music. Times, Sunday Times
As far as Bangalore is concerned, the erstwhile City Improvement Trust Board was the forerunner in developing housing layouts as early as in the nineteen fifties.
The forties and fifties found her stealing the limelight in a series of successful West End revues in addition to entertaining the forces, appearing in variety and cabaret performances.
It consists mostly of couples in their fifties who are wearing shiny shoes and frilly shirts. Times, Sunday Times
On the left hand side of the farmyard stood a fifties-built bungalow with a neat front lawn and potted geraniums on the porch.
They are known as ‘Scummers’, a term going back to a dock strike in the fifties, when blackleg labour was brought in to breach the picket lines.
Unlike Norton and Margot, their career continued to flourish through the forties and fifties, but no longer as a brother act.
He was a stocky man in his fifties, with thin, gray hair. The Other Side of Me
The postmodern feeling for style harmonises with the pictures, which would be classified as pop-art, and the furniture of the fifties and sixties.
Now, in my early fifties, I have a growing confidence in my capacity to become an elder and a senex - an old man filled with the joy and openness of a young boy.
How did you spot those fifties were counterfeited?
He points to his mint green windcheater and tells me it's a Fifties American original that cost him £750.
Many, especially the overfifties, will now be rushing to the chemist's shelves. The Sun
It must have been tough being an Irish kid growing up in the fifties and sixties with no father.
Back in the fifties and sixties I produced a mass of work, most of which seems to have disappeared.
When I was growing up in the fifties, medical experts thought it would be a good idea to excise organs such as tonsils or the appendix, which appeared to have no function. The Law of Unintended Consequences
Caltech in the fifties was becoming an international centre of cosmological discovery.
Historians of the Sixties have long emphasized that there were many anticipatory developments, from the introduction of Playboy and stars like Marilyn Monroe in the Fifties, to the Beat Generation of the same era.
Mini did - not bad for something Sir Alec Issigonis sketched out in response to the national fuel shortage of the late Fifties. WN.com - Business News
Traditionally the score is kept on paper using tally marks for tens, grouping them into fifties.
A short, bald and rather round gent in his late fifties waits in the arrival lounge carrying a placard that reads my name in bold capitals.
Mr. Bruce was a voice actor in many cartoons of the thirties, forties and fifties, most notably as the narrator of silly travelogues and newsreels.
I can only imagine the difficulty of a middle-aged woman getting a divorce in the fifties or sixties.
She wore chunky glasses and a skirt that looked like her mother had worn it in the fifties.
What aire we goin 'ter do with all this yere mazuma?" asked Bud, looking over the stacks of fifties, twenties, tens, and fives that lay on the table around which they were sitting in the living room, and which was flanked by piles of gold and a few hundred-dollar bills. Ted Strong's Motor Car
Duncan's poetry of the forties and fifties is massively influenced by the Metaphysicals.
Back in the fifties I worked on a number of eight by four panels and can remember no great snags in the painting or the subsequent display and longevity of the results.
When Frank was at his creative peak in the mid-fifties, a young Elvis hit with the hammer that was Rock & Roll, knocking Sinatra down several pegs as popular music upheaved huge and fearsome stalagmites around him. Archive 2009-08-01
Captain Robins was a Yorkshireman in his fifties who had long since lost his accent amidst the welter of a dozen dialects.
Pedal pushers and prom queens, floral corsages and full skirts, gingham checks and clinched waists - all were the essence of Fifties style, of a time when girls were gals and boys were teddies.
In his late fifties, his sandy-coloured hair is greying and a thick grey beard accentuates his rounded face.
When that was done, a mysterious, portly man in his fifties moved in. Times, Sunday Times
Michael Moretti's attorney was a tall, silver-haired man in his fifties, the consigliere for the Syndicate, and one of the shrewdest criminal lawyers in the country.
The students ranged in age from their twenties to their fifties.
She made the calendar girls of the Fifties, with their airbrushed flesh and gleaming swimsuits, look like dinosaurs.
As they receded in the late fifties and early sixties the political space in which to develop a progressive agenda expanded accordingly.
But instead I've just been poncing twenties and fifties off friends, relatives and, finally, acquaintances in the oddest of places: a whole range of car parks, the new malls and basically anywhere near a cashpoint machine.
That all changed when, in her early fifties, Wilke's narcissism underwent the most dramatic conversion with her body's consumpton by disease, and audiences witnessed her youthful eagerness to show off her beauty proving itself to be but preparation for Wilke's unhesitating display of her own demise and death in a wholly unsentimental, even stoic art. G. Roger Denson: "Old," "Crazy" and "Hysterical." Is That All There Is?
The fifties story continues too with brightly coloured boxy jackets, pretty frocks, knife pleat dresses and printed dirndl skirt dominating the a/wear summer scene.
Arriving in Cambridge on a Fulbright Scholarship, she is a splash of brash American colour against a backdrop of a dour Britain in the grip of Fifties austerity.
I was brought up in the frigid fifties; by the time the swinging sixties started I was married and had missed it.
She returned to New Zealand in the fifties and wrote the three definitive books on desmid taxonomy. Yatima » 2010 » March
The _Iroquois_ and her sisters, built in the fifties, were vessels of the kind to which I have applied the term corvette, then very common in all navies; cruisers only; scouts, or commerce-destroyers. From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life
The sample was 50: 50 male and female (one more female than male, but she was lost in rounding), 1.1% were in their teens, 13.1% in their twenties, 33.8% in their thirties, 30.6% in their forties, 14.7% in their fifties, and 6.7% aged sixty or older. Pet life in Japan
This theory fell into disrepute in the fifties.
Zootsuit spit-and-polish, like beboppers of the forties and fifties on the sleeves of Hatch's record albums, Ward is leaning against a black hearse, his face cold and blank.
The age of the grandparents ranged from the early forties to mid fifties.
It was a great concept, a book of trivia to help lift the drab, austere grey days of the mid fifties…
The couple run a family business: Steve takes care of the leathers and other merchandise, and Loz runs the cafe, which is a hybrid of Forties tea room, Fifties cafe and American diner.
A spry and quick-witted woman that, although in her mid-fifties, still didn't act a day over twenty-five, she had been, and always would be, the person that I truly looked up to the most.
My people came from Bucks, England, and emigrated to the States in the early fifties.
A woman in her mid-fifties stood on a ladder organizing books on a top shelf, her stiff, dark hair long since made limp by the humidity.
While courting Jeremy's mother in the fifties, he sewed her a dress for every date they had.
In its images, its language, costumes, and lighting, it seeks to recall and amplify the great noir films of the forties and fifties; but it's a hollow construction, because the vital vision has vanished from its core.
Reactive dyestuffs, developed in the Fifties, chemically react with the cotton fibre, under the influence of alkali and heat.
Beyond two huge oak doors, two men in their fifties are putting the world to rights over tea and a small saucer of finger sandwiches. Times, Sunday Times
A great orator and man of the theatre, Jimmy won many awards in drama festivals during the fifties and sixties, winning the best actor award on more than one occasion.
He was described as being aged in his late forties or fifties, with short, straight, grey hair.
He was a stocky man in his fifties, with thin, gray hair. The Other Side of Me
For a Fifties child, food meant Campbell's soup, baked potatoes, shepherd's pie, stringy spinach, etiolated carrots, and toad-in-the-hole.
Clad in immaculate khaki shorts and blouse, with equally immaculate pith helmet, Sarah was the taller, the older, still trim, almost thin, late fifties. Bienvenidos a San Blas, a short story
She is at least in her mid-fifties (says she qualifies as a senior citizen) and she has some medical background training and worked doing in-home care.
So the Forties pencil skirt was swapped for a forgiving Fifties-ish prom style; shirts were untucked and oversized; trousers came in soft silks; and the sweater - well, what says "relaxed" more than a slubby knit? Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Together with the colourful fifties style costumes - all beehive hairdos and swirly skirts - it perfectly evokes the mood of that era.
Why is Joe, a Fifties Edinburgh bohemian, so fascinated by forsaking his middle-class existence to become a coal shoveller?
We're not talking a few crisp fifties left on the bedside table in a soulless hotel. Times, Sunday Times
Combining oak and lacquers, in a “fifties” finishes range, fill in of expression this minimalist and retro piece. Bathroom Sets by Foster : Simplicity, Color and Style
The total amount is in the fifties.
Very few men in their forties caught my eye but once in the fifties, they aged rapidly in comparison to their female counterparts.
Belize is dotted with tiny colonies of Mennonites, most of whom immigrated in the fifties from Canada and Mexico.
So the fifties really might be friskier. Times, Sunday Times
That teacher was Mr. Jeremy Wendell, and he was apparently in his middle to late fifties, as he had a great deal of gray in his hair now.
Lillian, a short, sturdy man in his late fifties, informed us from his judicial pulpit that although there was no defendant, the daylong inquest would proceed like a juryless trial. Hi-Ya!
James Dean was a cult hero of the fifties.
People soon became disillusioned with the more hard-edged forms of modernism, and aghast at the overweening urge to control demonstrated by totalitarian regimes from the thirties to the fifties.
Shortly after the coining of the term beatnik in the late fifties, the paths of the Beat Generation and what most of America believed to be beatnik culture began to diverge exponentially. The Typewriter Is Holy
What adjectives best describe lawyers in their fifties?
When a freelance writer in his fifties or sixties once came in to pitch stories, uninterested senior editors shunted him down to Macfarlane.
Large pictures of fifties stars hung along the walls and a song from the musical Grease played on the jukebox in the corner.
They have Edward looking like a hoodlum from the fifties or something. Twilight Lexicon » Full Character Images from Eclipse
He began performing in the early fifties, singing and playing guitar.
The womanly power revered in primitive societies was within me, as I teased my hair and pulled up the starched petticoats of the late fifties.
Instead, the museum is concentrating on foundation figures who came of age in the fifties and sixties and on enriching its holdings of the work of certain especially favored artists.
It was the age of flounces, and this expansive tendency culminated, in the mid-'fifties, in the reign of the crinoline, against which Punch waged for many years a truceless but, as he himself admitted, a wholly ineffectual warfare. Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857
Atherosclerosis poses the largest threat when people reach their forties or fifties.
Sacks' discussion was prompted by his description of a man in his fifties who had recently had cataracts removed allowing him to see things other than light and dark for the first time since he was a young child.
I found him intractable, dominating and intent on lecturing everyone about the way to do things, which in his case meant only the way they'd done things in the fifties.
Stephen who was in his middle fifties was working on a television aerial in the Aghamore area fell from the roof of a two storey house, he was rushed to Castlebar hospital but died a short time later.
There are none of the shortcuts of the forties and fifties, though one sees the font of what survives, in abridged form in many later projects of that period. St. Robert's, Shorewood, Wisconsin
Id planned to lower the pop-top for after-dark Las Vegas cruising, which it soon would be, so I unlatched the manual locks and hit the chrome control knob that had been futuristic in the fifties and Dolly was gettin down. Dancing with Werewolves
A man in his fifties, in a tuxedo, who seemed to be making a bed through the footboard of where we were sleeping. Varla Ventura: Bride of the Bizarre: Zombies, Pillowy Brides and Wedding Night Ghosts
In the fifties, sixties and early seventies John was an integral part of the art scene in his native Cork.
The man, aged in his fifties, was shot in his car by bandits who tried to rob him after a visit to an automatic teller machine.
I probably look as if I'm in my fifties rather than my seventies.
With the exception of three years in the mid-Fifties, Rowicki continued as its artistic director and principal conductor until 1977.
Heavy industry and mining took a toll on many generations, leaving tens of thousands of men who reached their forties and fifties only to find they had been deserted both by the trade they were trained in and the strength to learn a new one.
The factory site already includes one residential property, whose long-term occupier, a woman living alone in her fifties, is apparently incensed that she has been given a month's notice to move out. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
In the Fifties, radiant heating using hot water pipes embedded in concrete floor slabs made a promising entrance - and a humiliating exit after leaks required countless slabs to be jackhammered up for repair.
As recently as the fifties, most clothes were made by dressmakers.
Now fancy the earth planted with fifties and hundreds of these phalanxes side by side, — what tillage, what architecture, what refectories, what dormitories, what reading rooms, what concerts, what lectures, what gardens, what baths! Uncollected Prose
Don told me about dinner parties he gave in the fifties for his artist and poet friends, when he served asparagus with a soft boiled egg in an egg cup and the spears were dipped into the yolk.
Costumes are in pastel shades and of Fifties vintage, witty in their matching detail for the tale of two sets of identical twins and multiple mistaken identities.
This was in the early part of the 20th century, and from the fifties onwards that land became filled up with community facilities.
Mrs. Macfayden also pretended to recall a "whup" of some kind or other he had in the fifties, but this was considered to be rather a pyrotechnic display of A Doctor of the Old School — Complete
According to a source who was there, Mr Barry received a chilly reception that day back in the Fifties.
Many Poles or those of Polish descent born in the Forties, Fifties and Sixties could be descendants of Siberian deportees.
He was a small, bald man in his fifties with pebble glasses.
The older man grinned, a myriad of wrinkles submerging onto the weather tanned skin, exposing his real age of fifties.
Perhaps not in the fifties and sixties, but … for the past thirty years that is exactly what the Republican Party has embraced, bucko. Think Progress » Catholic nuns break with bishops and urge passage of health care reform.
He has reason to be concerned as his mother and grandfather on his maternal side died of a sudden heart attack in their late fifties.
I am surrounded by women in their fifties who are looking bleakly at their futures. Times, Sunday Times
I think he'll really come into his own during his forties and fifties.
I began watching the company in the fifties, when a quintet of highly individual ballerinas reigned over the female roster.
The man, aged in his fifties, was shot in his car by bandits who tried to rob him after a visit to an automatic teller machine.
I was forty-three years old and had already risen to a rank usually occupied by men in their fifties and sixties. ULTIMATE PRIZES
The Fifties was the triumph of streamlining, push-button technology, new graphics styles, new icons.
The changes have been greeted enthusiastically by many in their fifties and sixties who are approaching retirement. Times, Sunday Times
Busier than ever, she is happily married with two young children and plans to spend her fifties pleasing herself and exploring other avenues.
We took a floatplane to the trail head. Our taciturn guide pointed out that it was this robust aircraft that had helped to open up the wilderness in the Fifties.
Standards of living rose in the fifties.
We are in our early fifties. The Sun
And that reminds me that the decorum of sea-bathing in the 'fifties was promoted by the apparatus known as the awning, attached to bathing machines. Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857
And this was the fifties, the grayest, bleakest, most blinkered and culturally repressive period in the entire second half of the twentieth century, especially in small-town America.
As the baby-boomers enter their mid to late fifties the issue of how we care for the aged is never far from the news headlines.
The ducktail was adopted lovingly by Hollywood to represent the wild youth of the Fifties.
James Dean radiated a furtive, brooding, fifties masculinity that two shows - a new docudrama and a feature film - try to decode.
On the menu were classics unheard of in Fifties London: paté de campagne, matelote d' anguille and bouillabaisse.
Designers have taken the bulk, and some of the frumpery, out of sensible tweedy fabrics to give these jackets a nostalgic, vaguely Forties or Fifties air.
Neither one of us are religious in the slightest, so the sole reason for my attendance at this time seems to be the annual egg hunt that for people in their fifties my parents take unnatural glee in.
Caltech in the fifties was becoming an international centre of cosmological discovery.
Skin freshness tips for your fifties are here.
He was in his early fifties, a bright-eyed Irishman with salt-and-pepper hair, broad shoulders, and the beginning of a beer gut. TIES THAT BIND
The new play at the Youth Theatre is an impressionistic view of life in the fifties.
Sharp colour and defined curls create dramatic impact For a classic fifties look short hair is combed back from the face.
By 1960, she had produced Jameson's Raid, becoming a noted historian in her fifties.
Men last to their fifties and women to their early sixties. Times, Sunday Times
He went on to say that the swelling optimism among pioneers of the forties, fifties and sixties had given way, in some cases, to mild despondency.
Grandma was in her last fifties and was letting her hair grow gray naturally, which looked good for her.
Maxwell spent ￡350,000 on the house, installing a stained glass window and glitzy Fifties Neptune statue in the hall.

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