Word: busting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Greenback Party: for President, John G. Scott, 69, a farmer from Craryville, N.Y.; for Vice President, Granville B. Leeke, 59, maintenance man in a South Bend lathe factory. Founded in 1874, its present program might be summarized as follows: The way to stop boom-bust cycles is just print money when it is needed...
...shadow over Budapest last week, was probably far superior to the pink marble monuments the Reds have been building in Berlin, and certainly surpassed the obelisks, as characterless as paperweights, with which they have dotted Eastern Europe in the past two years. Instead of a tank, or a bust of Stalin, it featured a high-breasted, neoclassic lady holding a king-size palm leaf 42 feet above her bare bronze toes...
...people who wanted "to bolster one of two previously determined conclusions: that [Wallace] is a dirty red or a fooler both ... It is possible," he wrote with heavy sarcasm, "to oppose Mr. Wallace's candidacy on sincere and reasoned grounds: believers in the theory that the boom and bust cycle is inevitable . '. . those who prefer sovereignty enforced by military means at home and abroad...
...Kind Bust" v. "Mean Bust." Before he left, the Japanese poured out their appreciation of General Eichelberger. The Emperor invited him to lunch-a rare courtesy. Prince Takamatsu, the Emperor's brother, came to tea with the general and his wife Emma (who through the war, and after, got a letter a day from her husband until she joined him in Yokohama). The governor of Tokyo and the governor of Yokohama got into a squabble over which would commission a sculptor to do a "kind bust" of the general-to supplant a stern-faced "mean bust" made...
...Hungarian and not just a Kremlin stooge. Its peril lay in the fact that guerrilla-wise Tito knew this, and alone among satellite satraps had the necessary independence and power to put his knowledge to use. Moscow could forgive the medals on Tito's chest, the little bust of Bonaparte on his desk. It could not forgive his double-headed weapon of power and a popular cause...