Fifty-nine

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Adjective
  1. 1
    being nine more than fifty wordnet
Numeral
  1. 1
    The cardinal number immediately following fifty-eight and preceding sixty.

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"The first known case of H.I.V. was found in a man from what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. His name is not known. He had given blood in nineteen fifty-nine for research on genetic resistance to malaria."

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