| 单词 | sixty |
| 例句 | I met a girl named Chelsea who told me about something scary that happened at Oak Hill fifty or sixty years ago. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z In the late sixties the Warden quit his sales job and turned to teaching. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The American Type Culture Collection—a nonprofit whose funds go mainly toward maintaining and providing pure cultures for science—has been selling HeLa since the sixties. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z With his head down he drove one hundred and sixty pounds of sonflesh into his father’s stomach. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She figured up the tuition; a little over sixty dollars with laboratory fees. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z About sixty percent of Shin’s class was assigned to the coal mines, where accidental death from cave-ins, explosions, and gas poisonings was common. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I saw Johnson; he had a rag or something around the sixty and was shooting it from the hip. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z From 1932 through 1939, the lab’s overall staff shot up from ten to sixty, but the number of Rad Lab personnel paid out of state funds never exceeded ten. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The human heart shuttles blood through sixty thousand miles of blood vessels. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The river was no more than fifty or sixty yards across, and it wasn’t long before Dicey saw the opposite bank rise over her head, capped by a tangle of undergrowth and trees. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z After all, Sadi Carnot finally produced a satisfactory theory of the steam engine only in 1824, more than a hundred years after Newcomen’s first engine, and sixty years after Watt’s. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She saw a man in his late sixties, prosperous, confident, beautifully dressed, used to the very best of everything, used to moving among powerful people and whispering in important ears. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Rain used to be one, back in the sixties. There were fourteen families at Garland then. Now it’s just Rain and me.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z We were skimming along approximately sixty miles above the moon’s pockmarked surface. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Forty’s good. Forty a night. Then we tack on food—say another hundred? Two hundred sixty total?” The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z These sections were inserted between stone mullions and the reinforcing bars to create windows as high as sixty feet. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z I won sixty dollars, and Shorty and I had a ball with it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z That long road, her life, which she had followed for sixty groaning years, had led her at last to her mother’s starting-place, the altar of the Lord. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z So if it only has sixty knots in one centimeter of carpet, then you’d see that rug on the floor of a tea house in the bazaar, and you’d be welcome to step on it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Since the start of the journey, they had zigzagged down the curvy river, traveling about sixty miles, which averaged to seven and a half miles a day so far. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z People were leaving the South and heading to Chicago in parties of twenty, sixty, even more. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She came back for a while, but at sixty she found it was just too painful to be at Down without her Annie. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z And it's always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos are born between July 23 and August 22, fitted queen-size sheets measure sixty by eighty inches, and America is the greatest country on earth. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “Aren’t they magnificent? Thirteen has been studying their aerodynamics here for years. Forward and backward flight, and speeds up to sixty miles per hour. If only I could build you wings like these, Katniss!” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He got a head like a Martian—his head takes up about sixty percent of his natural body weight! Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She had had her first love affair when she was sixteen, with a Party member of sixty who later committed suicide to avoid arrest. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z For the next sixty minutes, the Capitol feed alternates between the standard afternoon newscast, Finnick, and attempts to black it all out. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The idea is to match people over sixty with dogs over seven—the hardest ones to find homes for. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z He would answer that the sixties weren’t so bad, compared to the times we lived in now. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Fifty, sixty, maybe as many as a hundred. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Open the cabinet in the master bathroom, and to this day, you will find expired six-packs of Sego, a chalky dietary milk shake popular in the late sixties. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The US government had allowed each family to bring only sixty dollars on board this ship. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He was a man of perhaps sixty, frail and bowed, with a long, benevolent nose, and mild eyes distorted by thick spectacles. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It struck at Leo, who ducked and tried to grapple its neck, but it was like trying to grab sandpaper going sixty miles an hour. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “It was my father, the former king of the City of Bright Moonlight, who gave the Paper away over sixty years ago,” the king said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z When she’d finished her course, she was told she had to train sixty men before she'd be allowed to volunteer for combat duty. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z But instead I count all the way to sixty, a stupid smile plastered on my stupid face. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I lived in a climate of relative security—if you don’t consider the Klan’s random bombings in my area—until more visible signs of unrest and change came to Birmingham in the early sixties. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z As one, sixty oars lifted from the river, then reversed and backed water. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z According to law, Bobby would have had sixty days for a hearing and perhaps another sixty days to confront the appeal if it didn’t go his way. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The nearest statue of the god was about sixty feet ahead. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z At sixty, said Confucius, I was no longer argumentative. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Louis takes her to a doctor in Utrecht, a large city sixty miles to the north. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He outweighs Wilkins by sixty pounds, and with one hand he casually throws him to the ground. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Six thousand five hundred and sixty dollars for one fish that got caught by accident! The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Chip slung his duffel bag over his shoulder and rushed out of the pool locker room—the same locker room that Milo Stanford would use sixty years later. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Let’s tear through Tokyo from zero to sixty / yeah, like we’re running out of time in this city,” she croons. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z There were just ninety or a hundred kids in all of Juvenile Hall, most of them boys, even though the facility had been built for three hundred and sixty. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I turned around; an older man, probably in his sixties or seventies, approached the truck with a concerned smile. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Behind it was a web of rope stretching sixty feet high, making Fabyan look like an oversized spider hulking beneath it. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I looked at Capricorn Anderson, and that’s what I saw—not a case, but a time traveler, about to step into a world that had forgotten the sixties except for J.F.K. and the Beatles. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “The human body is about sixty percent water,” the girl says. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z These had five, six rooms; some had ten and if you could manage fifty, sixty dollars a month, you could have one. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Only twenty-five years ago, Joe’s father, Esequiel, had had a permit to graze one hundred sheep and sixty cows in the National Forest. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The speed limit is seventy, but I make myself stay at sixty. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She organized a group of sixty women who canvassed the state of New York, collecting ten thousand signatures on petitions. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “The serum will go into effect in sixty seconds. This simulation is different from the aptitude test,” he says. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “In the late sixties, early seventies, I don’t think there was anyplace else that was exactly like Michigan,” Mike Alexander, one of the pioneers of Michigan’s computing system, said. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z And the ringer is, sixty thousand a them is white. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “September fifth is Amazon Rainforest Day. But so far this summer, sixty thousand fires have been detected. Fire season doesn’t end until December.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Still, I saw a renewed awareness of the racial unrest of the sixties as well as an interest in the Sixteenth Street Church bombing when I returned. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z A capable mechanic, he earned sixty dollars a week. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The Greek behind the counter said the price was sixty cents, so that when he had paid he was left with only a nickel. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He was sour-faced, about sixty, with a thin mouth and big meaty jowls like a bloodhound’s. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z She also told me that when she was young, during the sixties, there were many men and women that made significant changes that affected her life, as well as the world around her. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Behind me I could hear the sixty open up. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z With his sandals and mustache, he appeared to be a sixties type or some sort of a low-grade employee, maybe a janitor. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At sixty, White Deer was the second oldest in the Company. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Beezle was hardly over a hundred pounds, and his enormous, unwieldy bundle of sheets and towels had to weigh fifty or sixty pounds. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, it will be interesting to see what a fisherman suddenly knows about a woodpecker that no one’s even seen in sixty years,” Lucas replied. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Forty-five million kids were eating healthier breakfasts and lunches; eleven million students were getting sixty minutes of physical activity every day through our Let’s Move! Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z As their research wore on, Dr. Gazzaley and his peers discovered something they found remarkable: Older subjects, age sixty and above, showed increased ability to focus. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z "Germany has sixty million people, and out of that sixty million, only one-half million are Jews." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z “My dad, growing up in the sixties, he thinks he’s a rock star, or he wanted to be,” Tyler says. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “To most people it’s names. Dead people. But I always picture just eyes, eyes, eyes. I can’t go to Washington and face that Wall. I can’t have sixty thousand pairs of eyes staring at me.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z I don’t hop from being sixteen to being sixty. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Rubenstein was in his early sixties then, a heavyset man with dark hair, a deep southern accent, and a very clear and concise manner. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Music in the fifties was good. Much better than the sixties, or the seventies, ugh!” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z But she had sixty varieties of roses, and most everybody in Cold Sassy was beholden to her for nursing a relative back to health or laying out the body for burial. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The two gallons of pop had me squirming in my seat for the last sixty minutes of redundant nonsense, and I practically sprinted to the can when the film finally collapsed. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The river was sixty or seventy feet across, leaving the lake, and the current at the sides seemed a bit slower. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z There was—there is—a drilled well near the house, about sixty feet deep, with an electric pump. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Some Italians from the old days of the fifties and sixties were still around. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z A rider who lost touch with the saddle became a projectile moving at sixty feet per second, and whatever he hit became a potentially lethal instrument. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z That final descent and series of loops takes sixty seconds, but the 10 G centrifugal force that results from the 223-mile-per-hour loops is what kills you. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z From the cedar stock he found there—long, tight-grained, straight sections cut from massive, ancient trees—he could mill elegant planks of wood twenty inches or more wide and sixty feet long. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Here’s sixty cents,” he said, reaching deep into his pocket. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He had no idea of what the sixties meant, nor did they seem to interest him. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z His state of mind was bad; he was emaciated; and he was smoking sixty cigarettes a day. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The Freys all looked like weasels; Ser Stevron, past sixty with grandchildren of his own, looked like an especially old and tired weasel, yet he was polite enough. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Charles Warring is reporting, telling me that sixty American soldiers have been killed in Vietnam. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Not a year later, Bobby’s sister, Joan, then age sixty, died suddenly of a stroke, and Bobby once again felt the pangs of not being able to show his respects at a family member’s graveside. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Her dad had only mentioned they were moving to the home of his literary idol, oh, sixty million times. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z When the rich lord turned sixty, he decided he would throw his most lavish banquet. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z The thermometer by Miss Celia’s kitchen window sinks down from seventy-nine to sixty to fifty-five in less than an hour. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Giant searchlights—the largest ever made and said to be visible sixty miles away—had been mounted on the Manufactures’ roof and swept the grounds and surrounding neighborhoods. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z For the next sixty minutes, the two teams played spirited, aggressive hockey. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The sixty swung toward the clearing and raked the far side. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z If they had merely glimpsed the statue through a car window at sixty miles per hour, they could only have made a wild guess at its authenticity. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Standing there, seeming lost and a little bewildered, was a woman of about sixty. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z My mother’s voice sailed in from the kitchen: “Forty-three thousand five hundred and sixty.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z “They work with the Minute Men,” A.M. added, pointing to the opposite side of the library where another group of fifty or sixty men in loose fitting jogging suits gathered. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Within the hour there would be sixty, crowding each other onto the floor. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Sometimes even nowadays you can meet a man of sixty or more who holds himself as straight as a rush, and whose hair is black. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Oh, let’s make it do sixty!’ we shouted. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z On August 8, 1955, only a few weeks after Lake had gone on the offensive, Hodges unveiled his new school program in a statewide address carried live by sixty radio and ten television stations. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z She waited with her fleet of sixty ships standing in formation. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z “I rode about sixty miles yesterday, before I met up with you,” I said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z At the time, the Maya realm consisted of sixty or so small, jostling statelets scattered across what is now northern Belize and Guatemala and the Yucatan Peninsula. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It made about as much sense to him as a fifty-five-dollar ticket costing sixty dollars. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z In consequence, he could observe perhaps four hundred galaxies in an evening while a large professional telescope would be lucky to do fifty or sixty. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Nobody had known that two hundred and sixty redcoats were getting into boats, slipping off up the Mystic, seizing Yankee gunpowder, and rowing it back to Castle Island for themselves. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Interesting. Heterochromatic eyes. I just told you. You’re in my clinic. It’s for animals, but the closest ER is sixty miles from here.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “That’s two squared times three squared times ten. And there are three hundred sixty degrees in a circle. And the line that makes a circle goes on and on and on, without any end.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z To test the shows, Palmer took them to Philadelphia and over the third week of July showed them to groups of preschoolers in sixty different homes throughout the city. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Keeping track of the artists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Italy is as difficult as keeping track of the tax laws in the nineteen fifties and sixties in the United States. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The boys in Werner’s Kameradschaften are taught parade maneuvers and quizzed on fitness standards and required to run sixty meters in twelve seconds. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Climb the rope to the ceiling in under sixty seconds? Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z “Well, no. I think it was new in the early sixties — or late fifties at the earliest,” he admitted sheepishly. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z During the last three years alone, his lordship has been crucially instrumental in establishing links between Berlin and over sixty of the most influential citizens of this country. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z I give Mom a black sweater and Dad a CD with sixties hits. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Every available male, aged sixteen to sixty, was drafted into this new militia, under the direction of the SS. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z It is true that as more and more persons were graduating from college in the sixties, the diploma’s value on the job market diminished. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A young White House aide, Egil Krogh, came up with the idea of parking sixty buses around the building, bumper to bumper, to form a makeshift barricade. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z To date, the Shuttle has flown about sixty times, all but one of the flights successful. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z By lunchtime, there are over sixty No-Name signs running along the corridors of Paintbrush Falls Middle School. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z He had started with more than sixty of them, but the training had proved too rigorous for many. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In the sixties and seventies, during the social upheaval of freedom rides and cafeteria sit-ins and boycotts in Birmingham and marches on Selma, Odessa stood locked in time. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z An old man he was, past sixty, yet he still sat straight and tall in the high saddle, and his voice was strong enough to carry to every comer of the field. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Similarly, the symbol T in TTT stood for “one,” “sixty,” or “thirty-six hundred” in the three different positions. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I can only imagine how much worse it would have been sixty years ago, before you could google vitiligo and find out what it really was. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z The sheriff was referring to the lynching of a young African American man named Michael Donald in Mobile, about sixty miles south. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z There were prob-ably fifty or sixty guys in the place, unusual for that time of day. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Three years after graduation, I was still at it, having published my first novel, The Wanderers, a collection of linked stories about a gang of Bronx teenagers in the pre-Beades sixties. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Burger was confined to a crowded cell with sixty other prisoners. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z There were thirty or forty jailkeepers and a hundred and fifty or sixty prisoners, none of them very well off, most of them sound asleep though it was not much past Fourth Hour. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z She was so glad that Mama had kept the passports tied in a small purse to her waist with the sixty dollars! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “You’re talking about a woman who has had soup with cow bones in it for all sixty years of her life. She doesn’t get tired of things. What are you going to do about it?” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z At the end of it all, sixty thousand people were dead and virtually every building for miles reduced to rubble. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z She looks to be fifty when I know she must be at least sixty. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z With the help of teachers around the state, Terman chose some seven thousand gifted children, who have now been followed for almost sixty years. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z When the clouds closed in a moment later, cutting off my view, he was within sixty feet of the tents, maybe closer. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Not sixteen, not sixty, not even a hundred, but a thousand years old. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “I thought you had a sixty/forty chance of getting it,” Mom says. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I stood up and took one more glance at the sixties photograph, at the weird butterfly emblem on all their T-shirts. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z They were printed on stiff, expensive paper, and each ticket pad cost the town two dollars and sixty cents. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The rise was gende, to a height of perhaps fifty or sixty feet. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I get ready for school and leave the house at seven forty-five for the ten-minute walk to the schoolhouse, a brick building that holds sixty children, separated into grades. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z At age forty, approximately one woman in a thousand develops breast cancer each year, whereas at age sixty the rate has risen to one in five hundred. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “And do you know, the department interviewed sixty people — that’s six-oh, sixty — and by the end, only two people received so-called offer.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, about sixty feet away, the stone floor cracked. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, from an entertainment point of view, only about sixty of the approximately three hundred folding chairs are populated. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z That night, over icy roads and through howling winds, Paul Revere rode the sixty miles. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Some African Americans who had been born as slaves were still alive, and could describe how they had lived sixty years earlier. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z There must have been sixty, maybe seventy of them. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He seemed to have forgotten that we were in a Dodge Caravan and not a BMW, because it went from zero to sixty in what felt like thirty minutes. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z She is a child of the sixties; following the pack blindly has never been her ethos. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z He had no idea of what the sixties meant, nor did they seem to interest him. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sure, I’ll give you sixty cents for it,” said the girl. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “This must be the route to the old fallout shelter from the nineteen sixties,” said Grace. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z “A protester. From the sixties. The Black Panthers?” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z ‘Tm all packed now and I’m waiting to go home. I’ve finished my sixty missions.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z But she left the room, counting backward from sixty, loud. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Seven degrees is something like one-fiftieth of three hundred and sixty degrees, the full circumference of the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He came to Brandeis after his work in the mental health field, just before the sixties began. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the certainty that we’d all be dead in sixty days. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “All right, you Maniac Magees, here is your picture puzzle. The category is Famous Quotes. You have sixty seconds to solve this rebus.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z They're both in their sixties, old enough to start fooling themselves that seventy-seven is still young. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Coups begat coups, he said, telling us about the bloody coups of the sixties, which ended up in civil war just after he left Nigeria to study in England. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z They had been friends for more than sixty years. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z To the left and right, sixty thousand voices roared. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Hassan said, “I think I just lost sixty pounds in sweat.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z She was the kind of woman who would be held in contempt during the militant nineteen sixties. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Eight weeks, sixty days, i ,400 hours more, and she would have made it. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z After living most of his life in Venice, he moved to Vienna in his sixties and died there lonely and impoverished. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z And that was all it took for like sixty other eyeballs, including Mr. Hollow's, to laser beam me and my sneakers. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z I went away to college—Berkeley in the sixties—and I studied, and I marched to change the world, but I did not turn into a boy. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I can still hear what happened more than sixty years ago. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mr. Aaa, I’d like to tell you. We came sixty million miles.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z He was sixty years old, with a wife and nine children to look after. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z So sixty kids standing in front of the entrance to the school. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Once they had more than sixty of these odd messages, they started to puzzle out what they might be. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Dunno. It’s about sixty miles, maybe more, ’cause the river twists and turns. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The legal sparring continued through the middle of 1959, when the court dismissed the Crown’s indictment against the remaining sixty- one accused. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She was wide awake, sitting cross-legged holding hands with Grand-grand Uncle and his wife of sixty years who, for as long as Bandit could recall, had refused to address her husband. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z His pulse rises to sixty-four at five forty A.M. and hovers at sixty just a few moments later. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z It had started out being sixty seconds alone with the candy counter; now it was one large pizza per week for a whole year. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z So much, then, for my memories of kindergarten sixty- two years ago. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z The way I feel about segregation in school is the way Jim must have felt about segregation in the sixties. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The UN High Commissioner for Refugees had decided to relocate all of us to a new camp sixty miles inside northwestern Kenya. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything began to fade except the sound of the sixty. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The professor was likable, it was the sixties, not having your creative juices flowing was understandable. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z A record crowd of sixty thousand fans had come to see eighteen horses try for the richest purse in the world. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The gentleman who stepped off the plane was in his sixties, with a pink face. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z In the sixties and seventies and eighties, the influx of Hispanics rapidly increased and many began living not only on the Southside but the west side as well. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They killed sixty white persons, men, women and children, found on plantations within a radius of twenty miles. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z For the next sixty months I would be quarantined in the same district, seeing the same streets, the same mine dumps on the horizon, the same sky. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z All around them the world seemed to be caving in; the way of life that had existed in Odessa for sixty years was badly shaken. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z As he tried to put on the brakes, she grabbed hold of his arm, and together they spun around three hundred and sixty degrees. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z There were album covers, Joe Cuba’s congas, guitar picks, ticket stubs, all from salsa’s golden days in the sixties and seventies. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Bilbo was very rich and very peculiar, and had been the wonder of the Shire for sixty years, ever since his remarkable disappearance and unexpected return. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The family, which has befriended a number of North Korean immigrants, lives in Riverside, a city sixty miles east of Torrance. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z We'd see sixty, seventy soldiers in a row, Frenchmen, in horizon blue uniforms, all with eyes bandaged, walking with their hands touching the shoulder of the guy in front for direction. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “They’re detaining every man between sixteen and sixty. They’ve been told to assemble at the tower of the chateau. Then they will be marched to Fort National at low tide. God be with them.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z There were fifty, maybe sixty, meters to the next stand of trees. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was the sixties,” Jack said, as if that explained it. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Johns Hopkins was born on a tobacco plantation in Maryland where his father later freed his slaves nearly sixty years before Emancipation. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Over the years nine children were born, four boys and five girls, and with each birth another quarter-section was added to the ranch, and that makes eleven quarter-sections, or seventeen hundred and sixty acres. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The commonplace heard in the sixties was precisely this: A black never stops being black. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Ten percent of that is a dollar sixty. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It had to be sixty feet, at least. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z They had got another sixty’ from somewhere and were firing it across the clearing. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Others let them drift with the current and sometimes they were at sixty fathoms when the fishermen thought they were at a hundred. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z A worker bee is just over a centimeter long and weighs only about sixty milligrams; nevertheless, she can fly with a load heavier than herself. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z That night the ships of the Iron Fleet numbered sixty. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They also house blood samples taken from most infants born in the United States since the late sixties, when states started mandating the screening of all newborns for genetic diseases. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z But, as Shin found out, they are quite willing to ignore national directives when presented with an industrious North Korean who keeps his mouth shut and works hard for sixty cents a day. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Everybody’s already here, seven family friends in their sixties and seventies. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He stood at his control panel about sixty feet to Percy’s left. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Since I think I’ve mentioned the new cleaning lady, I just want to note that she’s married, sixty years old and hard of hearing! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Over the next twenty-four hours, over sixty Sixer avatars cleared the First Gate. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The idea of what it means to be poor changed in the late sixties, when American manufacturers began to import their products from overseas and we began to accumulate “things.” Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Two of them are white, both in their early sixties, serving life sentences. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z By the end of the day, approximately sixty families, about five hundred new people, now fill the town square. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Another fifty or sixty in the small stand of woods across the field. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z “I’m taking a victory lap sixty miles from where I five. I came to find you, you idiot! And don’t think I don’t already regret it.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z He was an old guy, comfortably into his sixties, with almost no teeth and a body that looked as if it had put up with all kinds of tough stuff in its day. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z In response, Milošević’s army unleashed a wave of destruction and brutality on some sixty towns and cities in Kosovo. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Out of the roughly five hundred settlers Captain Smith said were in James Town when he left, by spring only sixty settlers remained, all of them close to death. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “Afraid not. That was what—fifty, sixty years ago? Most of us ain’t here anymore.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Here’s the math on that one: Sixty kids in the grade equals sixty sets of parents—and doesn’t even include grandparents. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z More or less 120 minutes long distance at $1.35 per first three minutes plus thirteen for the books plus probably ten for Charley’s taxi plus probably sixty for his time came to...? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z We only had two months before the school year was over and Karen’s family would want to go skiing, so we had to finish the sixty-six books in sixty days. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Back in the forties and fifties and sixties, the areas of occupation had been clearly understood. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Within hours, a line of over sixty people formed at the hospital wanting to donate blood. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Johnson moved the sixty up and got it into place. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Anyone who lived through the sixties will remember this old classic,” came the deejay’s voice as the song began its slow fade. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “I’m glad he talked to me. Though you’re right, Ms. Perez. He’s totally full of himself. Came up to me and hit on me within sixty seconds.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z And then there was Nicole: How would she get through the next sixty or seventy years with half a face? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Winston’s working week was sixty hours, Julia’s was even longer, and their free days varied according to the pressure of work and did not often coincide. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It is a good thing we have the sixty new men and boys to help buffer our smoldering anger toward one another. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Soon sixty demonstrators were marching outside the Housing Authority. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z One hundred sixty million years ago, Antarctica was part of the supercontinent Gondwana, which also included South America, Africa, and Australia. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z This time, the women were sentenced to sixty days in jail. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z I said, “I want sixty seconds with die computer. That’s only fair.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z It just took sixty years to make his proposal work in practice, and then it worked only if one had one’s feet on solid ground. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Johnson looked up at Dongan and then started stripping the sixty. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a carpenter, a lean, white- haired man in his early sixties. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Martin bursts in, and within sixty seconds, he changes his drink order twice, burps, and manages to level Abby s sugar house with an overly enthusiastic finger poke. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z “Besides,” she went on, her eyes twinkling, “some incredible things have been happening in the real estate market since the sixties. I just sold Garland for seventeen million dollars.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “Well, you bring me a hundred and two dollars and sixty cents and I send a wire telling the Valdosta operator to pay Adam one hundred dollars. You owe me sixty cents too.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “I heard that Albert Einstein’s IQ was somewhere between one hundred sixty and a hundred ninety!” said Grace. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Johnson and Monaco were behind us covering us with the sixty. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, in a little gray house made of logs. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z In March of 1943 I joined over sixty other Navajo Indians who took the bus from Fort Defiance to Fort Wingate to be sworn in. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z It is sixty feet tall, dressed in white, with a pink tunic. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z And we had to talk the seller down from a dollar to sixty cents. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Olanna looked away from the man’s lined face and yellowed eyes; he was older than she had first thought, certainly above sixty. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He has an instruction manual with sixty plates of the male figure. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He knew they had been brought up together, had known each other sixty years, had never not loved one another deeply, and it thrilled him when he could hear them arguing. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z In the late sixties, civil rights activists might have harnessed the great idealism that the southern movement inspired in Americans. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A man of near sixty years, he had grown too stout to sit a horse. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The cliff was about sixty feet high and set back from the river. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Two hundred and forty-eight, two hundred and sixty, two hundred and seventy dollars. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Each scythe must perform a quota of two hundred sixty gleanings per year,” Scythe Faraday told them, “which averages to five per week.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z But even though the top was no more than sixty minutes above, he decided to turn around, believing that he would be too tired to descend safely if he climbed any higher. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z His small milky-blue eyes would rove the Hall for the full sixty minutes, searching for trouble, and heaven help the boy who caused it. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Downed trees lay across the path every fifty or sixty yards, often with great bomb craters of dirt around their splayed roots. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z If you are over sixty or went to private school, you may have noticed that this syntactic machinery differs in certain ways from what you remember from Miss Thistlebottom’s classroom. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z An older man of some fifty or sixty years walked among the others of our Regiment, offering a compound in a bowl which he spread on muskets as a blessing. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The lowest was three feet tall, the next was six feet, and each subsequent log stood roughly three feet taller than the previous one, until the tallest rose about sixty feet high. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Working on a perfectly straight I beam more than sixty feet long, he constructed a delicate framework of spruce and northern ash. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z How was she going to sell enough lemonade to earn sixty dollars in two days? The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z Even in her sixties she still did something she called that, though as far as I could see all it meant was having lunch with some other woman. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z In the month of Oekre there were ten days and nights when the temperature never went below sixty degrees, and one day the heat rose to 88°. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z We then got on to other Arctic legends—the Norwegian ship that's been drifting unmanned for sixty years, stuff like that. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am. The thing is, there’s a five- dollar service charge on each ticket. So even though the tickets are fifty-five dollars, they cost sixty.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z The man was black, in his sixties, and watching him interact with the prisoners down the row, it was clear he was a man of God. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The picture was probably taken in the late fifties or early sixties, and shows a big rectangular swimming pool with all these happy people—children, parents—splashing about having a great time. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah. We’re doing music from the sixties through the eighties for our concert.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “I don’t know, that was back in nineteen sixty just before my mother died. Things may have improved by now.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z If you read the books at Grandpa Hong’s bookstall, you could rent sixty picture books for thirty fen. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Not once in more than sixty years did I stray, except in my imagination, and I have a feeling she wouldn’t have minded that. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z More than sixty of the suffragists, most of them middle-aged or older, chose to go to jail rather than pay a fine. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z It was difficult to tell how old she was, whether fifty or sixty, her body wiry, her face closed like a shell. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z More than sixty million dollars’ worth of real estate was built here last year, he said, and it’s all because of the World’s Fair. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He offered Shin food, lodging, and five yuan a day— about sixty cents—if he was willing to tend pigs. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z A giant column of smoke and ash rose to a height of sixty thousand feet in less than ten minutes. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, Miss Hilly got a big fur around her neck even though it’s sixty degrees outside. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Each island rose as much as sixty feet above the flood- plain, allowing trees to grow that otherwise could not endure the water. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Hazel was knocked out of her saddle at sixty miles an hour. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “Good news, guys! I got picked to be in Mrs. Atanabi’s sixties dance show for the benefit in March! Yay!” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z At the writing of this, I can tell you that I am somewhere between one hundred sixty and one hundred eighty years old, although I don't enjoy looking my age. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z At a guess he would have said that it was the body of a man of sixty, suffering from some malignant disease. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Lancelot fell sixty feet, landing on deep straw in a dungeon. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z She must be around sixty, but she still looks strong, and there’s no sign she’s turned to liquor or morphling or any other chemical form of escape over the years. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Let’s tear through Tokyo from zero to sixty / yeah, like we’re running out of time in this city. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The sixty was sweeping the banks of the stream. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Possible? Sure. I mean, today it would be easy, with digital effects, but back then, in the sixties? It would have been staging.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z And as I look back, it seems to me that we were fairly unique, the sixty of us, in that there wasn’t one good mixer in the bunch. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Five of their precious sixty minutes had already passed. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Helen is about sixty years old and is wearing the most colorful patchwork dress I’ve ever seen. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Soon there were fifty or sixty stretchers jammed together outside the ER. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “But how dare you hint or lisp a word about ‘sixty years of age.’ Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Her dad had only mentioned they were moving to the home of his literary idol, oh, sixty million times. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I must weigh at least fifty or sixty pounds less than the smallest Career. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z They were in their sixties, but in many ways the world was opening up for them. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Every day, Mrs. Fisher writes a sentence on the board, and we have sixty seconds to write something about it. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z In just one hour he’d counted sixty bodies being wheeled through the city gates in wheelbarrows. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z On the third day, sixty students converged upon the Woolworth’s, and by the fourth, three hundred had joined the demonstration. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “From the nineteen sixties. You know—the Cuban Missile Crisis. Mr. Lyons’s grandfather was the custodian back then and told him all about it. The entrance is in the custodian’s closet.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Always at night and never more than a shard of song: sixty or ninety seconds at the most. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The total was sixty cents, a sum that limited and blocked escape routes. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Considering there were sixty other girls in the competition, I was pretty happy with twelfth place. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The whole time, I’m trying to guess where and exactly how he died and, more to the point, realizing that poor old Milla’s been without him for sixty years. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Such zeal was firmly in place, just as it had been for the past sixty years. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, it is only one third that of earth, so that a typical male astronaut would weigh around sixty pounds and a female astronaut forty pounds. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked older than in the picture Richard had seen, closer to seventy than sixty, but his was an elegant aging; his strides were long and his chin firm. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I wanted, however, something more from the new middle-class institution than either the decadent romanticism of the sixties or the careerism of the seventies. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The Gryffindor crowd below was screaming itself hoarse — Gryffindor was sixty points in the lead, and if Harry caught the Snitch now, the Cup was theirs. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The basement rec room was a throwback to the sixties: shag carpeting, modern furniture, a small bar jutting out from the wall, and a Ping-Pong table. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z That good body of his would be filled with holes by a firing squad in Dresden in sixty- eight days. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z A little later one of those songs from the sixties came on, refreshingly tinny, made in a day when not all studio sound was automatically reduced to perfect resonance. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Once I break the seal on the patch kit, the binary components of the resin mix and I have sixty seconds before it hardens. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z For over sixty years, the official history of Elizebeth’s World War II unit was buried deep in the “sealed tombs” of the government archives. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z My legs are stronger than they’ve ever been—cycled a good sixty miles twice this week, once to find the field and again two days later to take Paul to see it. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The King of Northgalis, who was the leader of the opposite side, had one hundred and sixty knights in his faction, and King Bagdemagus only had eighty. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z My sword fell out of my hand, and before I knew it, I was dangling sixty feet in the air. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z But I knew I wouldn’t sleep at night until he was once again with Rain, hobbling back toward the sixties as fast as her pinned hip would carry both of them. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “This is supposed to be our year. I’m not going to give that up because some hairy Sasquatch stepped through a time warp from the sixties!” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z The time was ticking down on his stopwatch, from sixty minutes to zero. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z We had enough of it to last us sixty days at the minimal standard ration: a pound a day apiece. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I look around for the fish and there it is, fifty or sixty feet away. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z MR-2, with Ham the chimpanzee as its passenger, overshot the landing spot by sixty miles and was nearly underwater when it was finally plucked from the ocean. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The way Arion was moving, she might not notice he was gone for fifty or sixty miles. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “I can eat this whole can of peaches in less than sixty seconds,” he announced. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I spread and closed my fingers ten times and said, “Nope. Look. Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety, one hundred.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Walter Johnson, maybe with the best fastball in the game, could drive a nail in a fence post from sixty feet. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know. Dad and I don’t have the heart to replace him, though. He’s worked here for sixty years. How could we do that?” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z We waited in line until we were ushered into one of the glass-enclosed cabins, each wide enough to hold sixty people. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z "This will pay your debts and buy you clothing. Call me in the morning and I'll have selected your living quarters. For a start your salary will be sixty dollars a week." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z We had between ninety and a hundred pounds of coarse foodstuffs, half of it the load I stole in Turuf; sixty pounds of this are gone, after fifteen days’ journey. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Wherever there was fifty or sixty yards of view, there he would be—just the back of him, just disappearing. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z She still needed to earn sixty more dollars. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z “That’s probably the strangest tribute this school has had in a hundred and sixty years.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z "He was very old. Five-and- sixty, I think. Too old for battles. He was always saying he was tired." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z When court convened at the next term the court and sheriff were bolstered by sixty militiamen, but by then the defendant was not available for trial. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The prayers and the meetings felt like work, and he already had sixty hours of that a week. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z A sixteen-legged cedar turtle, more than sixty feet long, they crossed Mercer Street and headed south on Westlake, plunging into downtown traffic. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “We were sixty tons over maximum landing weight,” he said. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Johnson was in the center of the squad with the sixty. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The top gangs went even further, buying vast “mother ships” that could be loaded with up to sixty thousand cases of drink. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z On a clear, sunny day, nearly sixty years after Hitler's Nazi saboteurs landed on America's shores, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger planes and carried out suicide attacks against the United States. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Other nights I slept at Mama Sweetie’s, a tiny woman in her sixties who was the best reader in Pine Level. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z "No, but the car passed me down the road, going faster'n forty. Going fifty, sixty." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z And the last stage was the clerestory, which consisted of sixty- foot windows that reached right up to the roof. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z “That’s sick,” Ron muttered, watching the smallest Muggle child, who had begun to spin like a top, sixty feet above the ground, his head flopping limply from side to side. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z More than sixty men conspired to kill Caesar. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Once started, he went on and on—boomingly. “. . . five hundred and sixty thousand square Kilometers, divided into four distinct Sub-Reservations, each surrounded by a high-tension wire fence.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z We turned the heat down to sixty after that and huddled by the radiators for warmth. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z He was a big man of about sixty, with lots of white hair. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Only what, Chaplain ?” “Sir,” said the chaplain, “some of the men are very upset since you raised the number of missions to sixty. They’ve asked me to speak to you about it.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z A notice in the lift announced that there were sixty Escalator-Squash Racket Courts in the hotel, and that Obstacle and Electro-magnetic Golf could both be played in the park. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I was at Berkeley in 1974 when the romantic sixties came to an end. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In the space of four days, a house sixty feet long and eighteen feet wide was erected, complete with two chimneys. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z He died of pneumonia on June 28, 1890, at the age of sixty. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The Amazon jail was at the top of a storage aisle, sixty feet in the air. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “I thought you were putting up sixty,” Armpit reminded him. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “Final score was three hundred and twenty to sixty.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “Who was the first baseball player to hit sixty home runs in one season?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z She'd have been in her sixties when my parents controlled the Resistance. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “He’s got all the idealism of the sixties with none of the reality checks. He’s not a criminal, he’s the exact opposite—totally innocent in every sense of the word.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z His father had played football in Odessa in the sixties when there was an all-black high school in town called Blackshear. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A powerful-looking man in his sixties, wearing a beautifully tailored linen suit and holding a Panama hat, stood on the gallery above and looked down over the iron railing. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a bachelor, a man of sixty or so, plump and sharp-witted. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z That in itself is mind bending since we don't really have any rules to speak of except don't step off your circle for sixty seconds and the unspoken rule about not eating one another. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z There was holes cut in each end of the U. It musta weighed sixty pounds. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z By 1996 some sixty men and women had reached the summit without it—five of whom didn’t make it back down alive. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He was in his sixties and had been a drug addict earlier in his life, making access to his veins difficult. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “We’ve had you on a drip for over sixty hours...until you told us everything we needed to know.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z All in all, she created sixty life-size scenes, depicting ninety new insect metamorphoses and fifty-three species of plants. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z For his seventieth birthday, he attempted to track down a friend from elementary school named Bobby Hunsicker, whom he hadn’t seen in sixty years. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They constantly badgered me to do the “James Brown” for them, a squiggling of the feet made famous by the “Godfather of Soul” himself, who back in the sixties was bigger than life. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I tighten my mouth and look apologetically at Elouise, and then spend sixty seconds doodling something that resembles an ugly waterfall. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I said, “About sixty,” so as not to make a mistake; and I don’t know why, but he seemed to be relieved somehow and to consider the matter closed. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z When I calculated that, I tried pinching myself as hard as I could for exactly sixty seconds. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Except within sixty seconds of our dinner guests’ arrival, I know all is lost. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Michael says we’re up over sixty thousand links, and lengths of chain hang everywhere, doubled, tripled, and quadrupled up. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “You two men get to the other side of this clearing, the sixty will cover you.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He was in charge of about sixty inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z So all children born in Illinois would end up with a sixty- volume library by the time they entered school. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “I don’t look sixty years old, do I?” he said. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Five dollars a week got Dorothy a place to lay her head, two meals a day, and the kind attentions of Frederick and Annie Lucy, a black couple in their sixties. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “There’s this woodpecker that’s been extinct for, like, sixty- years. Only, this guy from Oregon or something was down here and he thinks he saw one.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z He was lined up and then handcuffed to another prisoner, a man in his sixties. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z People had been drilling for oil in the Permian Basin for over sixty years. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z And, Lord knows, we were drowning in pecans—sixty acres of them. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The Party claimed that the infant mortality rate was now only a hundred and sixty per thousand, whereas before the Revolution it had been three hundred—and so it went on. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Palbongsan meant “eight peaks mountain,” with its highest peak standing over three hundred sixty meters high. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z It’s estimated that South Korean businesses control between sixty and eighty percent of that market, including distribution, retail, and, increasingly, manufacturing. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Scratching numbers into the dust on the seat, I started the math, but John jumped in right quick with, “We need one hundred sixty bricks? I’ll be here until January!” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z When he was in his sixties, he proposed marriage to a fourteen-year-old. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The sixty — the pig — was hungry, angry that they had hit our man, our leader. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And as I hustled to the sidelines and jumped into a full minute of foot fire, shouting the countdown from sixty with Coach, I kept wondering: Wouldn’t we have been better off thinking that way? All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I looked up and saw a heavily built man, probably in his late sixties, wearing a rather tired tweed jacket, his shirt open at the neck. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Between 1927 and 1928, illegal liquor imports fell by an estimated sixty percent—from 11 million gallons a year to 5 million. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In March, Etienne turns sixty and Madame Manec stews little clams—palourd.es—with shallots and serves them alongside mushrooms and quarters of two hard-boiled eggs: the only two eggs, she reports, she could find in the city. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He’d also written one of the most famous clinical gynecology textbooks, which is still widely used sixty years and ten editions after he first wrote it. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In April of 1944, I was among some sixty American enlisted men who took a rather specialized pre-invasion training course, directed by British Intelligence, in Devon, England. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z San Bernardino had just sixty thousand inhabitants, but millions of people passed through there every year. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z He’s almost sixty years old, and I know he’s not going to be around much longer. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z If Lin-lin’s family had to live on just sixty yuan a month, and half of their clothes had been confiscated, she would learn to sew too. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z From the rocky shoreline rose fortress-like seawalls—fifty or sixty feet tall. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Oasis Circle is a clearing, a nearly perfect circle of green ground cover and trees rising at least sixty feet, protecting it. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z I asked him was three hundred and sixty degrees, then, the maximum of degrees in anything? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z And now it was a man named Yossarian who was threatening to make trouble over the sixty missions he had just ordered the men in his group to fly. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z We had sixty seconds to write the work’s title and the artist’s full name. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The impact of a four-ton pickup truck going sixty miles an hour plowing straight into the passenger side had the force of an atom bomb. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z "For every kilogram of hydrogen, it can make thirteen kilograms of fuel. Watney has five hundred and fifty liters of water. We'll have him electrolyze it to get sixty kilograms of hydrogen." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Crouching marines, their machine guns aimed outward, guarded the landing zone as about sixty people shoved onto each helicopter. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It meant that Harriet could find jobs for herself, and would pay Stewart fifty or sixty dollars a year. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It did them no good—Halifax’s party as a whole lost the election, as did Newton as an individual, and Newton, now in his sixties, never stood again. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z And beyond the dead trunks, maybe sixty yards away, was the boat, sitting beached in the marshes under the weak sun. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “Thirty-eight as you count the years; a shriveled sixty as far as my emotional outlook on life is concerned. Am I a psychologist for nothing?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Based on the sixty cents a day he had earned at the pig farm, Shin’s expectation was that he’d be paid at least twice as much. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z A second technician gauges Werner’s eye color against a chromatic scale on which sixty or so shades of blue are displayed. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z My best friend was a white guy about sixty years old named Ernie Santosuosso who was the Globe jazz critic then. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sometimes I cover sixty miles a day,” he said to an acquaintance. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a man of between sixty and seventy. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Fewer than 3 percent are over sixty- five; fewer than 2 percent are poor or unemployed. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z It was always sixties music too—I recognized the Beatles and some of the folksier stuff you hear on the classic rock stations. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “I don’t know, Willie, that sounds like something out of the sixties, know what I’m sayin’? Something about declaring war on poverty and Spanish Harlem being a prisoner of war. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Fifty, sixty, and my toes are done throbbing. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z In the sixties, minority became a synonym for socially disadvantaged Americans—but it was primarily a numerical designation. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Eads discovered that workers began experiencing the bends at sixty feet below ground, roughly half the depth to which a Chicago caisson would have to descend. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z About sixty seconds later, she said, “Baby, you hot? You want me to call Virgie up here to fan you?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The Germans, a gardener claims, have sixty thousand troop gliders; they can march for days without eating; they impregnate every schoolgirl they meet. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z To Mr. Aaa he called, “We traveled sixty million miles. From Earth!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Back in the sixties, when Garland was a working commune, the biggest jobs went to the people who were best qualified to handle them. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z When it came back on-line, he was singing the sixties pop hit “Sugar, Sugar.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He worked from dawn until seven or eight at night for his sixty cents a day. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She boasted sixty oars, a single sail, and a long lean hull that promised speed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Topping off the spectacle was a military parade including nearly sixty thousand infantry and more than twenty thousand horsemen. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z And, most telling of all: “No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Number of times I had to correct her: Something over sixty thousand. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z On the second play of the game, Comer went sixty- four yards for a touchdown, his seventh of the season. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She is over sixty, her mind’s made up. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, over a period of two hundred and sixty years a lot of Tang men no longer knew what the queue had originally symbolized. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z People had not felt the shaking emotion of war in nearly sixty years. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z When Charity first learned to drive back in the sixties, she was taught to leave one car length between you and the car ahead of you for every ten miles per hour you’re traveling. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Once I broke the seal on the patch kit, I had sixty seconds before the resin set. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The bird had been eliminated by DDT and pesticides in much of the United States in the forties, fifties, and sixties. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z By ten o’clock, the temperature was comfortably in the sixties. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I lift weights four days a week but missed today, so I dropped to the floor and did three sets of sixty push-ups. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z “You just ran a sixty point two without even trying.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z And what man wanted a woman over sixty anyway? Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Fourteen days passed, three hundred and thirty-six hours flew by, twenty thousand one hundred and sixty minutes whistled past, twelve million ninety six thousand seconds roared away.... Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z Lee said, “Let’s see, eighteen pounds, twenty minutes to the pound— that’s eighteen times twenty—that’s three hundred and sixty minutes, six hours even—eleven to twelve, twelve to one—” He counted on his fingers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z On July 16 a record sixty thousand people pressed into Hollywood Park to see Seabiscuit try for the Gold Cup, while millions more crowded around radio sets to hear NBC’s national broadcast. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z "This will pay your debts and buy you clothing. Call me in the morning and I'll have selected your living quarters. For a start your salary will be sixty dollars a week." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Counting, Ten, twenty, thirty, forty deep into the winter until one afternoon gravity releases me and my feet fly free in the ropes, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety . . . as my grandmother watches me. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z “You might be able to find her. She would be”—Molly calculates in her head—“in her late sixties, right? She could very well be alive.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “I bought it from Miracle Max and it works for sixty minutes.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z It was heavier than I’d expected—sixty or seventy pounds of precious gold wool. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Through the screen door we could see a dark, cool lobby and, behind the desk, a man of about sixty, his half-moon glasses pulled low on his nose, reading a copy of the Bennington Banner. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Filling them both cost three pesetas sixty centimos. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z That could put her sixty miles from here. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In October, William Still recorded the arrival of sixty fugitives from the area in and around Cambridge. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s got my favorite songs from the sixties through the nineties, including Motown classics, soul, and R&B. I listen to it on shuffle and never get tired of it. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z The second woman is older, perhaps sixty or seventy. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The room went deadly quiet. “... for pure nerve and outstanding courage, I award Gryffindor House sixty points.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Then he’s to pull it o’er to barn number three on the Tanner north sixty. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z I was very tense because they were going to determine how much of the sixty days to six years I would have to serve. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z They could be aimed to cover a target area and wasted anything within sixty meters in front of them. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Full fare one way costs one dollar and sixty cents. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The men soon discovered how difficult it was to condense a novel into sixty pages, the average script length for a one-hour program. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z He’s probably got sixty bucks in there already. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z To you alone I will confide that on that night I shall be sixty miles north of here, for we must have all our forts sufficiently strengthened so as... Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the crucial lesson that survived the turbulence in the South of the fifties and sixties. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We undertook representation of all sixty of those eligible for relief in Louisiana. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The branches were strong all the way up into the crown of the tree, which stretched fifty or sixty feet into the sky. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “Bigger Thomas has entered a plea of guilty. It seems to me that sixty witnesses are not needed.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Across from us, no more than sixty to seventy meters, Monaco sat, looking at his hands. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He recalled that when the sun had risen that morning, he was on another continent, still a shepherd with sixty sheep, and looking forward to meeting with a girl. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z We flattened ourselves against the sides of the hut, and then Johnson peppered one side of it with the sixty. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In the clearing, sixty graves lay quiet and still, restful. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z At nine o’clock they went to bed and lay quietly, hand in hand, he fifty-five, she sixty, in the raining darkness. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The youngest could not have been more than a year older than her; the oldest must have seen sixty namedays. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z According to the CIA, the bombing campaign was costing the United States nine dollars and sixty cents for every one dollar of damage inflicted on North Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z His original estimate had been close—there were probably fifty to sixty of them, ranging from boys in their midteens to young adults like Alby, who seemed to be one of the oldest. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Though some trains were able to go sixty miles per hour, they were exceptions, and such a speed was achieved only over a short distance. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z I hated to kill it even more than I hated to waste upwards of sixty talents worth of ophalum. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “No, my advice to you,” he remarked, “is that you fly your sixty missions like the rest of us and then see what happens.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z About sixty seconds later, we heard the sirens. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “It was the sixties,” Jack said, as if that explained it. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z You probably know that in 1927, Babe Ruth hit his famous sixty home runs in a single season. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z It was small, only sixty people who were more likely to leave than bring others, and it was difficult to find, tucked high up in the mountains. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z On the beams of his library he had painted sixty or so quotations from the classics, all emphasizing the vanity of human life and of human aspirations to knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Seven policemen and at least four civilians died, and more than sixty demonstrators were hurt. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Wasn’t it Jacqui who told us the human body is sixty percent water? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “One side is seven feet. Another side, three feet. One angle is sixty degrees. How long is the other side?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There was very little similarity between the two, so even though the bottle of water might have weighed two pounds, when I tried to lift the chalk it felt like sixty pounds. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z A bus and caravan of cars—sixty people—journeyed with him from his old church in Anahuac to Nuevo Laredo to say farewell through tears. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z She was about sixty years older than Mr. Antolini, but they seemed to get along quite well. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z And all fifty or sixty men stroked their chins, as if in deep thought. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “Nights like this come around only once every sixty billion miles,” I said. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “He ended it when Ireland were a hundred and sixty points ahead, the idiot!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Children who made it through the perilous first years had a good chance of reaching the age of sixty, and some even made it to their eighties. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Since I been sixty- five, I got nothing but my monthly Social Security. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost sixty years earlier, in 1729, as a young printer in Philadelphia, he had begun publishing Quaker tracts against slavery and the slave trade. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “Barn number three on the Tanner north sixty, sir.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z She’d been so busy lately—away a lot, and really quiet when she was home, listening to her favorite songs from the sixties on our record player. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z He was already at Clarkeburv, a boarding school about sixty miles distant. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the sixties, when Cadillacs were futuristically self-assured, I was also self-confident and forward- looking. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In the fifties and sixties the John Birch Society had had a significant membership in Odessa. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Logically they should have been united, not only by the common bond of oil that had kept them in clothes for sixty years, but by the bonds of loneliness. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z There were fifty or sixty huge structures still standing, streets were dusty but paved, and you could see one or two old centrifugal fountains still pulsing wetly in the plazas. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z And Joe lost them—lost sixty sheep and couldn’t find them where they were huddled in the shade in a dry gulch. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t feel my sixty years or the pain in my old crushed bones. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Bobby, feeling as though he were playing hooky from school, had a good time competing in the matches, usually at the relatively leisurely time limit of sixty moves in two hours. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Another sixty seconds passed, and Varney still studied the papers with unhurried concentration. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In sixty seconds flat, she checkmates her opponent’s king. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “We will think what to do. We may have to spend, your father have money. Not quite sixty dollar anymore. But we will be fine.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “We have to read an abridgment, and it’s still a hundred and sixty pages long.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z About sixty feet below was a landing dock. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z We tried to persuade New Orleans prosecutors that Mr. Carter, blind and in his sixties, should be released after nearly fifty years in prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Jesper waited for a count of sixty, then dropped his collar and took a tentative breath. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z This was the sixties, so you know how it was. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z It included a list of the names of sixty Soviet secret agents, recently graduated from spy training, who would soon be posted to assignments overseas. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z By i860 the rewards offered for her capture totaled sixty thousand dollars. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s spent four years on an experiment looking at whether a particular kind of scientifically engineered video game could improve the attention span and memory of people over the age of sixty. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Was it Johnson’s sixty or something they had? Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z When Joe had failed at every job, his father in despair put him to herding sixty sheep. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Do I hear sixty dollars?” the principal asked. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z In sixty years lived alongside thousands of horses, he had never seen anything like this. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Among modern foragers, forty-five-year-old women can expect to live another twenty years, and about 5–8 per cent of the population is over sixty. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z One customer, a Southern belle in her sixties, had called Zeitoun Painting and had been happy to talk with Kathy, with her chatty demeanor and familiar accent. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Johnson and Dongan got into a pretty heavy argument about how Johnson was keeping the sixty. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The sixties roared through my house like a tidal wave. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Lefty stands up, nothing broken, and watches as Zizmo hurdes crazily on into the darkness . . . sixty yards . . . eighty ... a hundred . . . until suddenly another sound is heard. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Yeah, but Russell was playing in the sixties,” Todd said. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z “The problem of the twentieth century,” wrote W. E. B. Du Bois around sixty years ago, “is the problem of the color line.” The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z The squad had just got some new barrels for the sixties and two new M-79 S. They were sitting around a tin can full of carbon tet cleaning the cosmolene off the weapons. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The sixties have never really come to an end. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Although the recipients may not know any languages of the Earth, we included greetings in sixty human tongues, as well as the hellos of the humpback whales. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “A century is about sixty billion miles,” I said. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Within days the Taliban streamed into the city of Buner, a town just south of Swat, only sixty miles from the capital. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Grandma had been only in her sixties, and most people in her family lived until they were about a hundred. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z At that time, lawn bowls was seen as a sport for older people, and all the volunteers that day were in their sixties and seventies. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z We are all at least sixty years old. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He had five other optometrists working for him in the shopping plaza location, and netted over sixty thousand dollars a year. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “All those drugs in the sixties,” she says accusingly. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z There had been fire in our direction, then the sound of a sixty. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s as if I’ve gone from being eleven back then to being really old now, at least as old as my grandparents, who are in their sixties. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z When I looked out the window a few minutes later, Markie had seemingly cloned himself and there were fifty, sixty, I don’t know, hundreds of him running around the yard. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Whatever we hadn’t eaten was taken away at the end of sixty seconds. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “We left some garbage and a flag there in the sixties, but that’s about it.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “Your friend’s got about sixty seconds of air left in him,” Styx Malone said. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I cannot say now whether I was more comfortable on the campus of the sixties or the campus of the seventies. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Johnson had the pig, the big sixty, the heavy ’chine. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Pioneer 1 arced through space until, sixty thousand miles out, not quite one-quarter of the way, it lost momentum and dropped back, burning up in the Earth’s atmosphere. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I could park the car, whip through two or three stores as needed, pick up a burrito bowl, and be back at my desk inside sixty minutes. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Even now, sixty years later, I still feel the beauty of that night. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Katherine and Jimmy packed the girls into the car and drove the sixty miles from Bluefield to Jimmy’s parents’ house, which quivered with excitement for Pat’s big day. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Finally Lucky said, “So I guess the car’s all right for a while. I just put sixty dollars’ worth of equipment in her and spent all of last Sunday working on her.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Some sixty feet long, stripped to the deck, keeled over in ten or twelve feet of water. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I used to tease Morrie that he was stuck in the sixties. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Who knows how long it would have taken for a federal judge to conclude that the Odessa school board, by clear design, had maintained a segregated school system for close to sixty years. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They ranged in age from sixteen to sixty and were carrying a motley collection of muskets and swords and pistols. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At the end of the thirtieth day of festivities, with sixty days more of partying to enjoy, Buttercup was genuinely concerned that she might lack the strength to endure. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Usually he would sprint to the plane and knock out fifty, sixty push-ups before the exertion slowly siphoned away the anger. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “Out of sixty other kids,” I added to ensure they understood what that meant. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z When I saw the crowd of fifty or sixty reporters and photographers, I honestly wondered what celebrity I had been on the plane with. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Men in their forties, fifties, sixties, and seventies all took off their hats and headed inside—and so did I. We ate cucumber sandwiches and drank cups of tea. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z But by 1975 the sixties had finally ended for my brother. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “This isn’t working. The eggs have been uncovered for sixty minutes, and at forty-five degrees Fahrenheit, that’s not good. I’m going to put them back.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “Hard to count—they keep moving around. But I make it between sixty and seventy.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z In the whole of astronomical history before Evans started looking in 1980, fewer than sixty supernovae had been found. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z She is around sixty years old and looks a lot like my last memory of Grams. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z We were standing outside the post office when the local magistrate, a white man in his sixties, approached Paul and asked him to go inside to buy him some postage stamps. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, Helm and Girard would faithfully attend to what came to be known as the pest house for sixty straight days. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Sixty million of them would have been more than sixty billion pounds of grouchy, fast- moving mammal pounding the plains. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z ‘Will you promise to take us up to sixty?’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z And then he heard about a restaurant in the “Inland Empire,” sixty miles east of Los Angeles, that was selling high-quality hamburgers for 15 cents each — 20 cents less than what Carl charged. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z He had once been a science geek, but the sixties had changed that. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Work, play—at sixty our powers and tastes are what they were at seventeen. Old men in the bad old days used to renounce, retire, take to religion, spend their time reading, thinking—thinking!” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well,” Nat drawled, “the closest estimation we have is that the diameter is two thousand, one hundred and sixty miles. Now, shall we go?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Johnson shrugged, shouldered the sixty, and kept on. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have been striving for over sixty years for a little bit of justice no bigger than that, and yet I must die without obtaining it....It seems so cruel.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Everyone was in t-shirts, some even in shorts though the temperature couldn’t be over sixty. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The truth was, he liked it when she kissed him, even if she kissed Furball sixty times as often. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A vaccine to protect children was sixty years away. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z We’d found sixty pounds of morels, it turned out—a personal best for Anthony and Ben. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The collector, a clever criminal himself, would pay Glitts sixty million dollars for her, but wanted a guarantee that the police would never trace the theft. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z And the first person to reach sixty won the game—except they didn’t call it sixty. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Two or three times an hour I would sight him just ahead, fifty or sixty yards away, vanishing into the trees. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He would plow for me, sixty acres, if twenty of it were his to harvest. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Throughout the spring and summer they worked a sixty- hour week, and in August Napoleon announced that there would be work on Sunday afternoons as well. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Hungry Joe had nightmares because he had finished sixty missions and was waiting again to go home, but he was unwilling to share any when he came to the hospital to visit. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “All men are equal,” he insisted in 1716—exactly sixty years before the Declaration of Independence. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “What happens after sixty minutes? Do I die again?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Now his group was reduced to sixty people and the entire confederation to fewer than a thousand. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In preparing for the sea battle, Mark Antony burned all but sixty of Cleopatra’s ships. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z I was all for Ben setting records, but I couldn’t bring myself to join in as everyone shouted, “Fifty-eight, fifty-nine, sixty, sixty- one, sixty-two, sixty-three!” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Over two hundred feet from one bank to another, and arching more than sixty feet at its peak, Stonebridge had more stories and legends surrounding it than any other University landmark. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z "Here's the situation. A 5010B is a youth sentence. It means you can do anywhere from sixty days to six years, depending on your behavior and what the parole board thinks." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z I’d had a long, grueling day, riding sixty miles and walking a half dozen more. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But Calliope’s head, like a midwest- erner who always got the fashions late, still thought it was the sixties. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Those books are sixty years old and full of inaccurate science.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Our cabins are suddenly crowded with sixty new colonists, and the fort becomes noisy with several new dogs, a dozen hogs, and enough chickens to coat the ground of the whole fort with their droppings. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “I have a forty/sixty chance of getting that job, and I’m not backing out.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Some seasons he got fifty or sixty pounds of it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The stairs spiralled downward about sixty feet before opening into a chamber as large as Bunker Nine - which is to say, ginormous. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z His hands did shake, but not all that noticeably, and perhaps the Inigo of before the brandy would have bested this fellow now in sixty minutes of solid fencing. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Twenty-five witnesses were called, sixty exhibits were displayed, store security videotapes were shown, and photos were employed by both sides. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The walls are covered with mounted deer horns, maybe fifty or sixty sets. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The divers would hope to find the child within sixty minutes, a time span known as the golden hour. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z I stop listening after sixty seconds and stare out the window. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Even now, sixty years later, I can still remember that Dobson’s father was a doctor and that he lived, as I had learnt from the label on Dobson’s tuck-box, at The Red House, Uxbridge, Middlesex. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Got a house bought and paid for and sixty acres uh land right on de big road and . Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The man was probably in his sixties, but looked weak. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I’d written more than sixty pieces for Outside over the previous fifteen years, and seldom had the travel budget for any of these assignments exceeded two or three thousand dollars. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z It’s about sixty degrees today—feels good out. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy estimated that, if he worked for six more months, he could return to Spain and buy sixty sheep, and yet another sixty. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In the sixties it clouded the minds of the hippies like the pot smoke rising in their bongs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Let’s see, the tangent of forty degrees is about point eight-four. Call it point eight. Multiply that by nine hundred and sixty...” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The piers of the choir at Chutreaux were to be one hundred and sixty feet high and six to eight feet thick. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z My father did not live through the sixties, but alcohol turns him from a registered Republican to a hippie wandering Woodstock. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The Storm Dancer was his fourth ship, and his fastest, a two-masted galley of sixty oars. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Some guys threw some grenades over the top and Johnson and another sixty raked it over pretty good. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I think they built a whole lot like that in the fifties and sixties, which is probably when ours was put up. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z A door opens, like the door of a house, and standing inside is a perky woman in her late sixties. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The spectator benches can seat perhaps one hundred and sixty persons. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “Pit scorpions can jump up to fifteen feet. Its stinger can pierce right through your clothes. You’ll be dead in sixty seconds.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The land mines were disabled after the sixty seconds we stood on the plates, but the boy from District 3 must have managed to reactivate them. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The cashier was a careworn woman in her sixties. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z “The whole idea of time-sharing only got invented in nineteen sixty- five,” Gates continued. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z She would have been about sixty- seven then. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Even on his bench, caught up in the mighty rhythm of the rowing, one oarsman among sixty in a ship racing over void grey seas, he felt himself exposed, defenseless. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z With an inner length of forty-five inches, that meant sixty hours of loading across a week. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Sweep the area. Check in every sixty seconds. Clear?” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z "Car number two," the father went on, "cost me one hundred and eighteen pounds and sold for seven hundred and sixty. Got it?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z He looked up to see a client of his, Frank Noland, a fit and robust man of about sixty, leaning out from a second-story window. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z It is thought as many as sixty thousand people perished. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Rooster Jim claims to be “near to sixty” and he puts in days that would send a younger man straight to his bed. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Through the glass I could see a fifty-year- old woman with long, gray hair worn straight down her back, clad in a dress right out of the sixties, smiling welcomingly from behind the counter. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z By 1922, ten million American households owned a radio receiver - up from just sixty thousand in 1919 - many of which were homemade ‘crystal’ sets. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It turns out Roli and I have to do sixty whole hours of free labor every year, while keeping up a B-plus average. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Every day, I cleared at least fifty or sixty dollars. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He asked to meet the warden and was led in to see Tom White, who was then nearly sixty years old. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z His face had aged so dramatically that, on the twenty-ninth birthday he celebrated that November, he could easily have passed for sixty. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In December, after my last paycheck of the month, I had sixty dollars in my account. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Quickly telephone to Helmholtz Watson.” “. . . upwards of five thousand kilometres of fencing at sixty thousand volts.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “Good. Only you need to make it six hundred and sixty.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Like forty-six push-ups in sixty seconds to win a bet with a boy. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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