Word: busted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...material of public memory, the war in Viet Nam has been a bust...
...characters in The Ice Age become linked through their involvement in the property-development boom and bust in England during the mid-seventies. Len Wincobank, the whiz kid property developer, along with Maureen, his secretary-girl friend, have been unashamedly "raping the city centers of Britain and making millions." His freewheeling charisma pulls in Anthony Keating, the clergyman's son raised to be a cultivated and useless esthete, who revolts against his proper past by leaving his broadcasting job to become a property speculator...
TIME's economists see no boom, no bust ahead...
...advance needed to cut unemployment would plunge the nation into still worse inflation, have kept the economy "on a tightrope." But the economists agreed to a man that business will come out of its summer slowdown-indeed, is already doing so-into a period of steady no-boom-no-bust expansion. Said Walter Heller, University of Minnesota professor: "The middle-aged recovery has gone through its mini-pause...
...Scalise, the Radcliffe soccer coach, once told me there are two kinds of athletes, the naturally gifted once and the ones who just bust tail," Malkin said. "I'm certainly not the naturally gifted type, and if I couldn't make it this year with all the work I put in, it would mean I'll have to work harder next year to try to make it. The question is, then, "Is it worth...