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. 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.

2. Donald Kettl:

   Senate Democrats had what seemed to be a kind of big moment in the 1960s where... states' rights were pushed back because of concerns that states left to their own devices would pursue policies that were discriminatory.

3. Amesh Adalja:

   We are fighting a disease now in 2019 that should have been off the table in the 1960s with the development of the vaccine, it should be viewed as an embarrassment that so many Americans have turned away from vaccines that we are having a record year for measles.

4. Bruce DuMont:

   The innocence of the 1950s ended with (the bumping of) 'The Andy Griffith Show,' and the seriousness of the 1960s began with the first Kennedy-Nixon debate.

5. Otis Brawley:

   There's a tendency in the US to think that every screening test is great. Unfortunately there are screening tests that actually cause more harm than good, 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.