1960s

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1960s pl (plural only)

  1. The decade beginning in 1960 and ending in 1969.
    • 1975 October 26, “Propaganda behind commando release”, in Free China Weekly [自由中國週報]‎, volume XVI, number 42, Taipei, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2, columns 2, 3:
      Sixty other former ASNA raiders, captured by the Communists while conducting commando activities on the mainland in the early 1960s, were released on the same day from Amoy to Tatan, an offshore island just off the mainland.
    • 2014 January 20, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “‘She. Herself. Naked.': The Art of He Chengyao”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 August 2023, Sinosphere‎:
      The story of Ms. He and her mother began in the early 1960s, shortly before the Cultural Revolution shook China.

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