Word: bustedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effect of even a mild U.S. recession. But in 1954 business forged ahead in Britain, West Germany and many another country, despite the brief U.S. downswing. As U.S. indexes turned upward at year's end, the 25-year-old belief that the world was tied to a boom-or-bust economy began to bust. The result, as 1954 ended, was a feeling of firm confidence in the U.S. economy and in dynamic capitalism as an economic way of life. Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey, a hard man with a dollar's worth of optimism, summed up this economic feeling...
...usually mild-mannered, publicity-shunning gynecologist stepped out of character last week and lashed out at the modern U.S. preoccupation with the female bust. Anthropologists and sociologists have already tackled this question as it concerns the male. But Dr. Goodrich C. Schauffler, who teaches at the University of Oregon and practices in Portland, told a Chicago congress on gynecology and obstetrics that it has grave medical effects on the female...
...honey-blonde hair and emerald eyes of Marilyn Smuin, 19, a sophomore at Pasadena City College, plus her wellrounded personality (bust and hips 35 in., waist 25 in.), won her the throne as Queen of the Roses (66th annual tournament), and all the New Year's Day hoop-te-do attending the big event, the Rose Bowl football game...
...Scene is the most important office in University hall. A harried-looking dean, a friendly man of undetermined age, paces nervously back and forth. The audience should know immediately that something is on his mind. Huddled in a corner is his secretary and Epstein's bust of Amy Lowell...
...They laugh heartily and in the background the bust of Amy Lowell winks at the audience as the curtain falls...