The Collaborative International Dictionary
mid-sixties \mid-sixties\ n. the time of life between 60 and 70.
Syn: sixties.
WordNet
n. the time of life between 60 and 70 [syn: sixties]
Usage examples of "mid-sixties".
Camperdown, a lanky, cadaverous industry veteran in his mid-sixties, who always dressed impeccably and was never seen without a red rose in his buttonhole, received Celia in his ornate office suite on the eleventh floor-executive country-of the Felding-Roth building in Boonton.
In his mid-sixties, he is described as a witty, urbane and articulate man with a slow and gracious manner.
There was a time, shortly after his conversion to the Black Muslim religion in the mid-Sixties, when Ali seemed to emerge as a main spokesman for what the Muslims were then perfecting as the State of the Art in racial paranoia -- which seemed a bit heavy and not a little naive at the time, but which the White Devils moved quickly to justify.
Norman's father was drafted in the mid-sixties but thought it might be safer serving offshore in the Navy, so he enlisted and served as a jet power-plant technician on board various aircraft carriers.
There were a couple of strips of tract housing, a few examples of the mid-sixties suburbanexplosion, but for the most part Ridgewood's fine homes dated from anearlier, theoretically more innocent time.