John Wright is a New Zealander in his late fifties.

NEWYORKER: Big Med

He was a light-skinned black man, likely in his fifties.

NEWYORKER: Reverting to a Wild State

Watson was among those to fall, being caught in the deep for 83 -- meaning he has not passed three figures in the five-day game since October 2010, despite registering 19 fifties in his 38 Test appearances.

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Once, inside a building in Baghdad, Petraeus, then in his early fifties, challenged me to race him up the stairs. (He won.) Another time, he dared me to join him on a morning run in the Green Zone, accompanied by an armed guard.

NEWYORKER: General Principles

By the time he became a lawyer, in his fifties, he was a respectable bourgeois townsman.

NEWYORKER: Silver or Lead

Berman is an intense, square-jawed man in his fifties, with a scarred body and a quick temper.

NEWYORKER: Coming Apart

His major policy statements in the nineteen-fifties came in two lecture series.

NEWYORKER: Getting Real

They approached Robert Levy, a software and financial entrepreneur with libertarian views who in his fifties had sold his company and gone to law school.

NEWYORKER: Partners

Liam Neeson, still physically powerful in his late fifties but rather melancholy, brings something stirring to genre movies.

NEWYORKER: Unknown

He was a tall, heavy man in his mid-fifties or so, which made him the baby of the group.

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