sixty-one

We have divided up their sixty-one years of “stuff.”

Lighten Up Peter Walsh 2011

In the summer of 1997, Khan was sixty-one years old, still erect and handsome but growing fleshy from the banquet circuit and too much of his favorite food, fried chicken.

Fallout Catherine Collins 2011

Its commander was Pierre-Paul de la Malgue, sieur de Marin, hard-bitten marine veteran of the wilderness, a gruff, quarrelsome, but energetic and capable officer despite his sixty-one years.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

Its commander was Pierre-Paul de la Malgue, sieur de Marin, hard-bitten marine veteran of the wilderness, a gruff, quarrelsome, but energetic and capable officer despite his sixty-one years.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

At sixty-one, she was, in her own words, “Seeing someone.”

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad Jack Canfield 2011

At sixty-one, she was, in her own words, “Seeing someone.”

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad Jack Canfield 2011

In 1975 there were still just thirty electoral democracies around the world; by 1990, after the collapse of the Soviet empire, there were sixty-one.3 The democratic wave continued for another decade, toppling one-party states across Africa and Asia.

Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011

By 1848 there were five democracies, by 1900 there were thirteen, by 1960 there were thirty-six, and by 1990 there were sixty-one.

Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011

A gigantic force some 215 divisions, including sixty-one armored divisions would be needed to defeat Nazi Germany.

Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

She writes, “Honored at the age of sixty-one as an indirect (and yet irrefutable) consequence of having failed at the age of twenty-two!”

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