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When Velcro, the Frisbee and Tupperware were invented
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forties
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the time of life between 40 and 50 [syn: mid-forties ] the decade from 1940 to 1949 [syn: 1940s ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 (plural of forty English)Category:English plurals 2 The decade of the 1840s, 1940s, etc. 3 The decade of one's life from age 40 through age 49. n. 1 (plural of forty English)Category:English plurals 2 The decade of the 1840s, 1940s, etc. 3 The decade ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forties \For"ties\, n. pl. See Forty .
Usage examples of forties.
Twenty years ago, when Scofield was in his late forties, he had taken a page from Howard Hughes and disappeared from the public eye.
The bearer of bad news was a colonel in his forties, a no-nonsense type who strode across the deck to greet the captain of the ship, who passed him along to the Carrier Air Group commander.
A chain-smoker, prematurely gray, he was in his early forties, a graduate of the University of Chicago with advanced work in Vienna and Rome and solid experience as an Air Force psychologist at Colorado Springs.
He was in his late forties, with thick curly black hair and a slightly rounded face to which a smile came easily.