Sixties

sixties English Alternative forms en sixties Noun Swinging + p The decade of the 1860s, 1960s, etc. (but especially the 1960s) en 1981 Channels of Communications https://books.google.com/books?id=yK5AAQAAIAAJ 22 Occasionally this was a direct result of network attitudes — as in the fifties with integration, the sixties with Vietnam, or the seventies with Watergate. en 2016 Oliver Gruner Screening the Sixties 9781137496331 https://books.google.com/books?id=CvsXDQAAQBAJ 179 Both Burnham and the president were middle-aged baby boomers with an investment in their Sixties youth 2017 When asked what the Sixties were all about, most people reply: peace, love, happiness. 2019 Counterculture expert James Riley delves into the darkness of the Sixties to sort fact from psychedelic fiction. en US A period in American history centered around the counterculture movement of the late 1960s. en 1999 Andrew E. Hunt The Turning: A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War 9780814773307 https://books.google.com/books?id=UqWL90_hyrAC Introduction 1 The 1960s and the first half of the 1970s—an era known as "the sixties" to most observers—has perhaps generated more mythology than any other period in American history. en 2011 Rob Kirkpatrick 1969: The Year Everything Changed https://books.google.com/books?id=5DOOt-7lbQEC xvii But the sixties no more ended in 1969 than they began in 1960. en 2013 James J. Farrell The Spirit of the Sixties https://books.google.com/books?id=iY-MAQAAQBAJ 17 It is relatively easy to choose some event (Kent State shootings Kent State, Altamont Free Concert Altamont, Watergate, and the fall of Saigon are favorites) as the end of the Sixties Synonyms en 1960s, en '60s, en 60s