Old-timers used it to describe a man who had just arrived from one of the big cities back east.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

The sixty-three year old coach has had operations to replace both of his hips and has problems with his back and knees.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

I always have been since Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and back in the good old days.

VOA: special.2010.06.25

She was about 50 years old. Her white hair was pulled back from her small, tired face.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

She was about fifty years old. Her white hair was pulled back from her small,tired face.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

The cry of a wolf brought the picture of the old moose back to him again.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the dead lying all over the ground.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

What was she going to do when she grew old and her back grew weak?

VOA: special.2010.03.28

But since then, the twenty-five year old had experienced severe hip and back problems.

VOA: special.2010.02.26

The Confederates pushed Pope's army back across the Old Bull Run battlefield.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

"Old anchormen,you see,don't fade away; they just keep coming back for more.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

"Next spring, I'm going to release a book set in the modern day world but a fantasy based on Egyptian mythology, bringing all those old Egyptian gods back to life."

VOA: special.2009.10.12

And Everett smiled back at the sick old man.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

She encourages her patients to try to go back to their old routines and to think positively about the future.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01