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  • Not the usual leather office throne but a fifties-style chair that resembled one of those nut scoopers at Whole Foods.

    As Husbands Go Susan Isaacs 2010

  • They sat in a red vinyl booth with its own Seeburg jukebox outlet and ordered from a laminated menu featuring fifties-style comfort food at mid-nineties prices.

    THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010

  • The scenery around us shimmered and changed from an endless orange desert to a fifties-style silver boxcar diner.

    The Haunted Jessica Verday 2010

  • Not the usual leather office throne but a fifties-style chair that resembled one of those nut scoopers at Whole Foods.

    As Husbands Go Susan Isaacs 2010

  • The company is luring shoppers into its Zara stores this autumn with fifties-style swing skirts that go below the knee, knitwear, and "masculine cut" trench coats, blazers and jackets for women.

    Inditex's First-Half Profit Soars 2010

  • They sat in a red vinyl booth with its own Seeburg jukebox outlet and ordered from a laminated menu featuring fifties-style comfort food at mid-nineties prices.

    THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010

  • That the yard was covered in cement and the size of a prison cell mattered very little; we bought a fifties-style glider from a junk store and anticipated rocking there in the afternoons with Jess and staring at the scraggly rosebushes that climbed a cracked wall at the end of the “garden.”

    Knowing Jesse Marianne Leone 2010

  • AWAY YOU GO! was printed in white fifties-style script.

    Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour Morgan Matson 2010

  • They sat in a red vinyl booth with its own Seeburg jukebox outlet and ordered from a laminated menu featuring fifties-style comfort food at mid-nineties prices.

    THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010

  • AWAY YOU GO! was printed in white fifties-style script.

    Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour Morgan Matson 2010

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