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Word: busters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sold more records (400,000 albums) than Eddie Fisher, has the most widely admired dimples since Shirley Temple, and displays the most relentless lovableness since Little Lord Fauntleroy. His name is Wladziu Valentino Liberace (he only uses the last name), but he has also been professionally known as Buster Keys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Goose Pimples for All | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

...explain the American enterprise system from the businessman's viewpoint." Asked the C.I.O.'s James Carey, a later witness: Would not Beeson also administer the Taft-Hartley law from a "businessman's viewpoint?" Despite strong opposition from labor leaders (truculent John L. Lewis called him "Union-Buster Beeson"), the committee approved Beeson's nomination by a 7 (all Republicans) to 6 (all Democrats) vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Burned | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

Most of them were young, tough, freewheeling Americans of 20 and 21, and they had the courage to have their say and the strength to take their punishment. Said Corporal "Buster Brown" White, of Alabama City, Ala.: "If they accused us of somethin', we said we didn't know nuthin' about it. If they tossed us in 'the hole,' we just kept our mouths shut. We just didn't do nuthin' they told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA: The Reactionaries | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

...sealed off Central Kenya, including the three Kikuyu tribal reserves, from the rest of the colony; 2) created "special areas" in three sections of the Great Rift Valley, where anyone moving about may be shot at sight; 3) sent in General Sir George Erskine, 53, a famed terrorist-buster who last left his angry mark upon Egyptian Ismailia (TIME, Feb. 4,1952), to clean up the mess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: Death of the Lion | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

BROWN Shoes ("Buster Browns"), having bought up two competitors in the past month, will soon take over Regal Shoe under an agreement reached with Regal stockholders last week. It is the latest in a series of merger deals in the shoe industry stemming from the fear of tough competition ahead and higher costs resulting from rising prices for top-grade hides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jun. 1, 1953 | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

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