What is "mid-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.