Word: 60s
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Vasso Vergis, a chemist in his 60s, has lived in "exile" in Athens since Italy in 1912 grabbed the Greek-populated Dodecanese Islands, including the tiny one he lived on. Last week Dr. Vergis and 15 comrades who felt as he did about the Italian usurpers set out on a venture that would have appealed to Ulysses. They boarded a motorboat at the Greek isle of Samos, just off the Turkish coast, and chugged through the night to Gaidaro, one of the islands of the Italian archipelago. Landing secretly, they surprised a police station, captured the chief and three...
...affected by age. Ralph Waldo Emerson, who kept his Journals more than 50 years, used more adjectives (59) in his youth than in his old age (37). Philosopher William James, in his 40s used many more adjectives in his letters to women than to men; in his 60s, the other way around...
...hears records of "some very spirited revolutionary songs from the '50s and '60s...