Synonyms for 1960s
1960s

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1. 1960snoun

   Synonyms:
   60s, sixties

2. 1960snoun

   The decade from 1960 to 1969. Also known as the 60s.

   Synonyms:
   60s, sixties

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1. sixties, 1960snoun

   the decade from 1960 to 1969

   Synonyms:
   mid-sixties, sixties

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1. List of paraphrases for "1960s":

   sixties, 1960, 60s, mid-1960s

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1. David Cohen:

   Institutions first started opening their back doors( releasing long-term residents) around the mid-1950s, then starting to close their front doors( admitting fewer people, especially for longer stays, and reducing the number of available beds within institutions) starting around the late 1960s and the early 1970s to the mid-1980s, then shutting down in earnest from the mid-1980s onward.

2. Jay Myers:

   Many people think that ‘Black Friday’ comes from the idea that it’s a highly profitable day for retailers, one where they’re getting ‘out of the red’ and ‘into the black,’ the term didn’t actually originate from retailers. Philadelphia police officers first used the term ‘Black Friday’ in the 1960s to describe the day after Thanksgiving, when a flurry of tourists came into the city to shop, causing traffic jams and accidents.

3. Lucinda Williams:

   Back in the 1960s, I saw Peter, Paul and Mary. I was at that age, about 14, and I was mesmerized.

4. Otis Brawley:

   In the 1960s and 1970s, we stopped doing chest X-ray screening for lung cancer because, after 20 years of doing it, we finally got around to doing an assessment and we found the death rates were higher in the screened versus the unscreened group.

5. Danilo Toninelli:

   There has not been sufficient maintenance and checks, and safety work for many bridges and viaducts and bridges in Italy constructed — almost all — during the 1960s.