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Word: busted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Flynn said the administration's challenge to the union's composition was just a delaying tactic. He added that Wood was "out to bust the union...

Author: By Jonathan B. Hand, | Title: UMass Union | 3/25/1977 | See Source »

...FILM opens in 1936 in the dust-bowl town of Pampa, Texas, where Woody is earning just enough money as a sign painter and square dance fiddler to keep his family from starving to death. Pampa is an oilboom town gone bust, a grim, Depressionera morning-after the gala twenties, when the oilmen and farmers came in droves. Now the money and water are gone, the land parched and worthless. All that's left is the dust--huge, billowing black clouds of destruction and death rumbling across the prairie. Production designer Michael Haller's re-creation of a Pampa dust...

Author: By Andrew T. Karron, | Title: Dust Bowl Refugee | 3/10/1977 | See Source »

Paranoia runs around deep. When they come for the Birchers' guns, when the busts bust and the silicone rain falls, when the grand jury indictments all come up with your name, and the percentage of illegitimate pregnancies conceived while rock music is playing creeps over 90, then it's time to get out. Kerp and Trumbo be seein' you. (He writes so well.) Off we go, in our flying bunker, high over Boston, wingin our way into your hearts, homes, mind, and a better reward...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROCK | 3/10/1977 | See Source »

...children per woman to a record low of 1.75 last year. Though it may rise in the next 30 years, it is highly improbable that Americans in the foreseeable future will again engage in the great procreational spree of the postwar years. The baby boom has become a bust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Looking to the ZPGeneration | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...need science to tell you all men are not created equal. Put a man and a woman in a secluded room and they will soon uncover this fact themselves. The woman cannot grow a testicle, nor the man a bust, nor the African a blonde hair, nor the Caucasian a colorfast suntan. Nor do they need to. As my roommate says, "What counts is not my 140 I.Q., but what I do with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scientific Message | 2/11/1977 | See Source »

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