51.   The ninth decade may be the most appropriate for his almost preternatural level of merriment, which could seem forced in anyone younger.

52.   The past decade has been a demonstration of the decisive power of force, and of its limitations.

53.   The past decade has been a golden age for buyout and venture investing.

54.   The next decade was rockier for Levin, as he supervised fiasco after fiasco.

55.   The ruling stirred hopes on impoverished tribal reserves that for decades have been a byword for hopelessness.

56.   There are worse decades to pillage.

57.   There have been decades when the Globetrotters did not lose a game, but that is no longer the object.

58.   There is a decade of frustration, which Calhoun sought to end by recruiting El-Amin, even though Connecticut already had point guards galore.

59.   They were smart people but the decade was so sexist.

60.   Though now much derided, this was a decade in which young people won the right to think their own thoughts, irrespective of their elders.