In the nineteen fifties, people saw famous Hollywood actors like James Dean and Marlon Brando wearing jeans in movies.

VOA: special.2011.08.12

Now, Ludwig van Beethoven was in his fifties when he was working on his last symphony-- what would prove to be his last symphony-- his Ninth Symphony, and he'd been tinkering with this particular melody all the way back to probably 1803, so it's about twenty years or so.

路德维希·凡·贝多芬在五十多岁时,创作了他最后一首交响乐,后来成为他最后的交响曲,就是他的第九交响曲,他一直在锤炼这段旋律,也许要追溯到一八零三年,所以大概经历了二十个年头

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

James Henry Hammond starts writing in the forties and into the fifties and he takes it much further, and he writes over and over and over again that, said James Henry Hammond, is that too damn many northerners didn't understand it is the way of the world as it is, and they ought to stop talking about the world as it ought to be.

詹姆斯.亨利.哈蒙德不惑之年才开始写作,到了五十岁仍笔耕不辍,他不停地写作,不停地著书,詹姆斯·亨利·哈蒙德说道,大多数北方人不能明白,这就是世界的本原,他们应该停止有关世界本源的讨论

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Not until the nineteen fifties did scientists, using radioactive dating, place the age of the Earth at over four billion years.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

She worked with Martin Luther King Junior in the push for civil rights for blacks in the nineteen fifties and sixties.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

During the nineteen fifties, Les Paul and Mary Ford recorded many hit songs including "Mockingbird Hill" and "How High the Moon."

VOA: special.2009.09.27

(BILLY STEWART - "SUMMERTIME") The nineteen fifties and sixties produced many songs about teenagers enjoying their summer vacation from school.

VOA: special.2009.06.22

In the early nineteen fifties, she went to Korea to photograph the effects of war on the Korean people.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

Maybe you like old songs from the nineteen fifties or sixties that are still well known and popular today.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

As a result, they used the frogs in fast-acting, low-cost pregnancy tests for women during the nineteen-forties and fifties.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

During the nineteen fifties, the "Top Ten" list mostly included escaped prisoners, suspected murderers or people who stole money from banks.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

The situation raised fears that the peninsula could be headed toward a return of the warfare of the early nineteen fifties.

VOA: special.2010.05.29

Jordan had recorded a song called "Caldonia" and other popular songs in the late nineteen forties and nineteen fifties.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

J.Robert Oppenheimer's life and work were affected deeply by Americans intense fear of Communism in the nineteen fifties.

VOA: special.2009.06.14

In the early nineteen- fifties, he and other famous writers, actors and intellectuals were accused of supporting communism.

VOA: special.2011.08.14

These include the cowboy of the Wild West and famous Hollywood actors like James Dean and Marlon Brando in the nineteen fifties.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

By the middle nineteen fifties, Doctor Seuss had become one of the best-loved and most successful children's book writers in the world.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

Her family sends her to live in the Brooklyn area of New York City in the nineteen fifties.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

Throughout most of the eighteen fifties, war was a continual threat between the North and the South over the issue of slavery.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

Radio was extremely popular in the United States between the late nineteen twenties and the early nineteen fifties.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

These were shoes worn on the Aran Islands, in the west of Ireland, until the nineteen fifties.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

During the early nineteen fifties, he also became known for social action as well as property development.

VOA: special.2011.01.30

Kahn's first important project was the Yale Art Gallery in New Haven,Connecticut in the early nineteen fifties.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

The film is based on the comic strip that was created by Brad Anderson in the nineteen fifties and still appears in newspapers.

VOA: special.2010.06.14

Until the early nineteen fifties, British teams were the only foreigners given permission to climb Mount Everest.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

In the early nineteen fifties, a professor of psychology and art named Tarmo Pasto visited Martin Ramirez.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

His version of psychoanalysis remained the one most widely used until at least the nineteen fifties.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

In the nineteen forties and fifties, the publisher and songwriter equally shared income from record sales.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

It remains as relevant today as it would have been in the nineteen fifties and sixties."

VOA: special.2010.06.21

By the end of the nineteen fifties, every major league team had black and Hispanic players.

VOA: special.2009.04.05