But expectations are higher than they were six decades ago and life is a lot more expensive.
More than a million wells have been fracced in the United States since the first frac job six decades ago.
There have been more than 1, 200 number one singles since the first chart was published in the NME six decades ago.
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These doubts were proven wrong nearly six decades ago, when the Republic of the Philippines became the first democratic nation in Asia.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created more than six decades ago.
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The last one, six decades ago, killed an estimated 4 million people.
Andy Rooney found an otherwise limited seat in mass media six decades ago and held it with years of good writing and engaging presentation.
It is from Marshall that I take a closing thought, first delivered more than six decades ago in the opening years of the Cold War.
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The question is: Will rank insubordination on a scale arguably not seen in a military commander since MacArthur faded away nearly six decades ago be rewarded by still higher office?
Six decades ago, Detroit was a city of nearly two million people brimming with factory jobs that offered immigrants from the South and abroad a pathway into the American middle class.
Launched six decades ago to haul rail cars across the Great Lakes, the Badger was spared from the scrapyard in the late 1980s when an entrepreneur bought and refurbished it as a passenger vessel.
Since the National School Lunch Program was founded over six decades ago, schools have served over 200 billion lunches that have helped generations of children achieve in the classroom and grow into our country's next generation of leaders.
And, having unexpectedly encountered the woman in her getup, I found myself wondering what, six and seven decades ago, they would have made of it: what the 16 million Americans who served in the armed forces during World War II, who were sent across the ocean to defeat a brutal enemy, would have thought about this scene.
Six years ago, the financial crisis brought on the worst downturn in decades.
"If I was from the U.S., I'd vote for Obama, " Chavez said buoyantly on state television just a week before he won his third six-year term two weeks ago, potentially extending his tenure to two decades.
The man, who cannot be identified, was given a six year jail sentence for a string of child sex offences committed more than two decades ago.
Through six decades, he's only been late to work once, and it was so long ago, he can't even remember why.
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