Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old Yevtushenko, whose poems about the Stalin era, anti-Semitism, and other topics made him a popular hero in the 1960s, is accorded special license and privileges by the Soviet authorities, including the freedom to travel to the United States...
...night stands and extramarital affairs may have been hip in the minds of many college students of the 1960s, but a recent study indicates that undergraduates today are much more conservative in their sexual outlook...
CANTON, Ohio--Paul Hornung, whose Golden Boy image was tarnished in the 1960s when it was disclosed he had bet on NFL games, finally made it to the Pro Football Hall of Fame on his 15th try. Fourteen times previously, the former Green Bay Packers halfback failed to get enough support for the Hall...
According to the sport's enthusiasts, skateboards first appeared along the California beaches in the early 1960s among surfers. Not until the mid 1970s--when the clay and metal wheels then used were replaced by faster and softer wheels made of polyurethane--did skateboarding become a widespread...
...upswing will become one of the longest on record, having begun in December 1982. The average postwar recovery has lasted only three years, so the current one is now already longer than normal. Still the economy has a long way to go to surpass the remarkable growth of the 1960s. In the longest recovery since World War II, the U.S. economy steadily expanded from 1961 to 1969, a record 105 months...