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Word: bustedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bust. Bouncing up & down the third-base coaching line, Dressen unfurls a series of antic semaphore signs, punctuated by shrill whistles, designed to befuddle opponents and give Dodger hitters and runners the benefit of his 31 years' experience as player (third base with Cincinnati), coach and manager. Unlike self-effacing ex-Manager Burt Shotton, he is no dugout sphinx. If some second-guessing fan questions his strategy, he is likely to switch his attentions to the crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: New Look in Brooklyn | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

...alongside the bench, from where he could still direct the show, was chased again. Next, he turned up in the dugout disguised as an Ebbets Field groundkeeper. Chased for the third time, he was fined $100 for disobeying the umpire, happily paid it: he had impressed his win-or-bust ballplayers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: New Look in Brooklyn | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

...paintings of the 17th Century masters. Like the old masters Charley admires most, she also does endless self-portraits. One of the outstanding pictures in her current show is Three Generations, a marble-cold,unflattering studio portrait of herself and her artist-son Edgar Fernhout, with an ominous bronze bust of her father lowering darkly over their shoulders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: In Father's Footsteps | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

...girls in about equal proportions, the Armed Forces Radio Service hit upon a neat solution: wrap up both and deliver them in a single package. The package is a pretty ex-movie starlet named Rebel Randall, the disc jockey of Jukebox, U.S.A., whose face and statistics (36 in. bust and hips, 24-in. waist) are every bit as appealing as her throaty voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: G.I.s' Disc Jockey | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

...Times movie editor proceeded to "prove" that movies are better than ever, if only by "the magnificence of the proportions of movie actresses. While Theda Bara could boast "but a scant 31 inch bust measurement, even a starlet today must...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Capp, Faye Emerson Spark Forum on 'Better Movies' | 4/14/1951 | See Source »

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