Synonyms for 1960s
1960s

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1. 1960snoun

   Synonyms:
   60s, sixties

2. 1960snoun

   The decade from 1960 to 1969. Also known as the 60s.

   Synonyms:
   60s, sixties

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1. sixties, 1960snoun

   the decade from 1960 to 1969

   Synonyms:
   mid-sixties, sixties

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1. List of paraphrases for "1960s":

   sixties, 1960, 60s, mid-1960s

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1. David Cohen:

   Institutions first started opening their back doors( releasing long-term residents) around the mid-1950s, then starting to close their front doors( admitting fewer people, especially for longer stays, and reducing the number of available beds within institutions) starting around the late 1960s and the early 1970s to the mid-1980s, then shutting down in earnest from the mid-1980s onward.

2. Otis Brawley:

   There's a tendency in the US to think that every screening test is great. Unfortunately there are screening tests that actually cause more harm than good, in the 1960s and 1970s, we stopped doing chest X-ray screening for lung cancer because, after 20 years of doing it, we finally got around to doing an assessment and we found the death rates were higher in the screened versus the unscreened group.

3. Amesh Adalja:

   We are fighting a disease now in 2019 that should have been off the table in the 1960s with the development of the vaccine, it should be viewed as an embarrassment that so many Americans have turned away from vaccines that we are having a record year for measles.

4. Carolyn Bourdeaux:

   It is something that obviously deeply angers women, i don't think we expected to be relitigating the 1960s and 1970s here in the 21st century.

5. William Goodman:

   In the 1960s, most people abusing heroin started with heroin – not pills, now that’s changed. First-time users start with pills, then go to heroin, as opposed to the past when they started with the injection drugs.