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Word: bustedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hired Man | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Southern Charmer | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Is Everybody Happy? | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Amazing Faith | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Jerome Goodman, | Title: Queen of Two Nations | 4/26/1950 | See Source »

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