Word: 60s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington, where the thermometer stood in the balmy upper 60s, the Times-Herald's Page One cartoon was a stopper. J. Q. Public was being smacked by a snowball labeled "early snowfall." Apparently, the paper's absentee owner, Colonel Robert R. McCormick, had decided that when Chicago has an early snow, Washington should observe...
...transaction was unknown to the thousands who decorated both banks and it probably didn't matter much. Amused by the bands and humor magazines of two colleges and warmed by a sun that sent the temperature to the mid-60s, the crowd had little trouble waiting out the hour-long postponement...
...life) is an experience every woman goes through, if she lives long enough. In the U.S. about 13 million women between 40 and 55 are now experiencing, or about to begin, the menopause. Men go through a change of life too, but usually in their late 50s and 60s, and the experience is more emotional than physical. However, men sometimes have ' "typical menopausal symptoms like loss of energy, assorted aches and pains, even the famous hot flash...
...serious; he may still be admired in a cafe if not in a museum and his hopes for the future are treated with respect. France's best painters-Picasso, Matisse, Rouault, Chagall, Braque, Utrillo, Derain, Dufy, Vlaminck and Léger-are all in their 60s and 70s. These young-old men are still the Alps of the modern art world...
...story told by Biographer Derek Hudson is a tragic one. Tupper had his success young. In the '60s the public outgrew him, and he became a figure of fun. As people began to snicker, other disasters struck him too. He lost his savings in speculations. His publishers went bankrupt and failed to pay him. His wife became an alcoholic and was out of her head for a time. His eldest son ran hugely into debt, was kicked out of the army, and almost broke Tupper's heart when he was found suffering from delirium tremens in a prostitute...