Word: busted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sittings were punctuated by occasional visits from members of the Westmoreland family. At one time, ten-year-old Kit charged into the garden, spotted the bust in progress and gasped: "Gee, it's President Lincoln!" A second look straightened her out, but the awe was gone. "Oh," she sighed, "it's only Dad." The general roared with laughter. From Katherine, 17, came quite a different reaction. She returned to Honolulu for Christmas vacation proud of the fact that TIME had published a letter from a reader suggesting her father as Man of the Year. When...
...boom began all right-but it went bust after Singapore's expulsion from the federation last August as a result of racial and political conflicts. Instead of a boom, Singapore now faces such critical problems as widespread unemployment (13.5%), dwindling trade (down 20%), and tense relations with Malaya, on which Singapore depends for, among other things, its water supply and its raw materials. Singapore's leaders are trying to keep their nation's economy afloat by a massive switch from trade to manufacturing, are urging industrial countries to set up plants in Singapore and buy its products...
Keynes showed that the hard facts of history contradicted these unrealistic assumptions. For centuries, he pointed out, the economic cycle had gyrated from giddy boom to violent bust; periods of inflated prosperity induced a speculative rise, which then disrupted commerce and led inexorably to impoverished deflation. The climax came during the depression of the 1930s. Wages plummeted and unemployment rocketed, but neither the laissez-faire classicists nor the sullen and angry Communists adequately diagnosed the disease or offered any reasonable remedies...
...enduring honor of England, more than military pomp and glory is recognized. The Abbey is also a national grave for the composer Purcell, the scientists Newton, Darwin and Kelvin. In Poets' Corner lie a score more than Keats, Tennyson and Browning. There is even a modern Epstein bust of Blake...
There is no royalty in this for Rachmaninoff, who supplies all the music. If he had only written the lyrics as well, he might have spared himself lines like "Dust the bust of Dostoevsky." And if anyone guessed that there would not be a dance number called Vodka, Vodka! -all knee bends and flying boots-he guessed wrong...