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How to use the word sixties in a Sentence?

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Musician Steve Winwood was definitely a man with a vision, and one of the pioneers of the British invasion of America in the sixties.

– Muff Winwood

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Don't forget, this still was the Sixties, long hair was controversial and the establishment was being given a battle from upstart newcomers, the symbolism was perfect, and it was all there.

– Gerald Eskenazi

Found on CNN
5 years ago

People are getting to their sixties with another 15 years of productive life ahead, and this is turning out to be the most emotionally-rewarding part of life, they don't want to just hang it up and just play golf. That model is wrong.

– Jonathan Rauch

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

They (CVC) are interested, my contacts in Germany say that. They can easily pay in the mid-sixties and still make money, why wait five years instead of selling in five months?

– Guy Wyser-Pratte

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

– Jerry Garcia

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9 years ago

“Until my sixties, my life was just like I was swimming in the mud. It was in my seventies that the flowers began to bloom a little and the spring of youth began.”

– Chikabo Kumada

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9 years ago

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around -- the music and the ideas.

– Bob Dylan

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10 years ago

The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens.

– Camille Paglia

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10 years ago

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.

– Julie Burchill

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10 years ago

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.

– John Lennon

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10 years ago

Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled.

– Joan Didion

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10 years ago

In the sixties, the world was normal and people took acid to make it weird. Nowadays the world is weird and people take prozac to make it normal.

– Unknown

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13 years ago

If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.

– Paul Kantner

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14 years ago

It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous.

– Andy Warhol

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14 years ago

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