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nineteen-fifties

noun

  1. decade 1950-1959
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Wiktionary

noun

  1. Alternative form of 1950s.

    In the nineteen-fifties, the height of aspirational style was fine French furniture—F.F.F., as it became known in certain precincts of Fifth Avenue and Palm Beach.

    The nineteen-fifties was also a time when literary publishers were frequently indicted for obscenity.