Word: bust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...signing, the President drove to the Capitol, appeared in the Rotunda before an audience of 800 Congressmen, Cabinet officers, civil rights leaders and others. To his right was a statue of Abraham Lincoln, to his left a bust of the Emancipator. On national television and radio, the President recalled that the first Negro slaves in the U.S. were landed at Jamestown in 1619. "They came in darkness and chains," he said. "Today we strike away the last major shackle of those fierce and ancient bonds...
Pound's Bust...
...pleased to see proper recognition of Gaudier-Brzeska in TIME [July 23]. I do not, however, own an estate in the Tyrol. The bust referred to is, for the present, at my son-in-law's there...
Feeding the Demagogues. Why do commodity prices boom and bust, gutting whole economies, while industrial prices glide up? The main reason is that commodity supplies are largely unpredictable, depend chiefly on the weather. International marketing agreements that could bring stability have been hard to negotiate and harder still to enforce. Castro upset the world sugar pact; the world coffee agreement is riddled with holes, and cocoa producers have repeatedly failed to agree on quotas and prices...
...TIME'S piece on fairs [July 16] misses an essential point. Knowing both Seattle's success and New York's bust, I would like to note that most Seattle construction was permanent, leaving a new civic-cultural center like those planned after the upcoming San Antonio and Miami fairs. Such planning achieves lasting results that would otherwise take a decade or more to achieve. This, not costly temporary borax like that at Moses' fair, is the likely future of world's fairs...