51.   Because of the sweeping political changes on Capitol Hill, federal supports for farmers face the biggest threat since their enactment during the Depression over half a century ago.

52.   Barry, in turn, likened Faircloth to the Southern segregationists in Congress who, half a century ago, ran the city like a private plantation.

53.   Before the wall went up, only a chain-link fence erected over half a century ago separated the two countries at this part of the border.

54.   Bequests by Maurice Pollack, whose department store was a downtown landmark for half a century, led Laval University to name its medical school after him.

55.   Bill Cowden, Fred Linari and Leo McCaffrey have been there and done that, more than half a century ago.

56.   Beijing officials have said that Hong Kong will be able to maintain its current system for half a century.

57.   Blass, who ran his company for nearly half a century, sold it last year because of increasing frailty and weariness with the fashion industry.

58.   Better that than disengagement or a return to the isolationism of more than half a century ago.

59.   Both countries were empires until half a century ago, and are used to deploying troops to trouble spots.

60.   A history of the Cold War, which ran for close to half a century and was played out on several continents, is no small undertaking.