Word: bustedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cost of our national security or national progress." His programs were not really expenditures; they were investments in the future. Cried Truman: "Don't let anyone tell you that the Government should retire to the sidelines while the national economy goes back to the days of boom & bust. The power of Government exists for the people to use. It would be folly for the people to be afraid to use their collective strength through the Government...
Edgar Bergen waltzed onto the floor of Las Vegas' Desert Inn last week with blonde, willowy Podine Puffington, who "speaks" with a syrupy Southern accent. Though only five feet tall, Podine has a 32-inch bust and 19-inch waist. Because of her light plastic construction, she weighs only 25 pounds...
...perhaps the best shoe salesman in the U.S. But three years ago, when he was treasurer and chief operating executive of Boston's Fleetwood Athletic Shoe, Inc., Salesman Saitz came a cropper. Fleetwood, which had been financed largely by Saitz's father-in-law, went bust. Saitz insists that he got out of the company while his in-law paid off the creditors at 37½? on the dollar and borrowed more, including $35,000 on the property, from Boston's Pilgrim Trust. Eventually the company closed down...
...said middle-aged George to his young wife Liza, "look exactly like a kitten." Liza purred, and all was well. But then George died and there was nobody to pay attention to Liza's "small pointed face" and "soft vulnerable mouth" and "miniature . . . French bust...
With a healthy, partially-exposed bust on the cover, some she-was-torn-between-love-and-duty ads, and a blithe unconcern for facts, "Eleanor of Aquitaine" could have led the best seller lists. As it is, Amy Kelly has written not a historical novel but a scrupulously documented history of the twelfth century. "Eleanor of Aquitaine" is a sober account of a game girl...