Word: bustedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wish to protest against your picture of the Burmese Prime Minister's backstage visit to Kismet [July 4]. Although it is quite obvious that U Nu knew what he was doing, a family newsmagazine is hardly the proper place for this bust-by-jowl juxtaposition of the traditionally quiet Eastern dress and the pseudo-Eastern undress...
...varsity added another run in the sixth. With one away, Butters again day send him to second. A wild pitch by Indian pitcher Bob Feltman advanced both runners a base and a neatly executed squeeze bust by Hill Chauncey brought in the final Crimson...
...figure is stout, her bust formidable, her manner blunt. Among the urbane Oxford and Cambridge tones of the House of Commons, her voice sounds rough and raucous as a Liverpool fishwife's. In the mannered cut-and-thrust of debate, her points are as emphatic as the slap of a wet cod across a face. Newspapers poke sly fun at her, other M.P.s snicker at her, county squires snort: "She's a disgrace to public life." But among her constituents in Liverpool's grimy dockland, Mrs. Bessie Braddock, M.P., is a beloved and admired champion...
...Ratcatcher. Bessie's heart matched her massive frame (50-in. bust, 40-in. waist, 50-in. hips). But "I've no time to be sympathetic," she says. "There'd be no time to do anything here if you wasted time in sob stuff." Elected as a Laborite to Liverpool's city council at 30, she was rough, tough, uninhibited and unintimidated. "I wish I had a machine gun on the lot of you!" she yelled at the Tory councilmen in her broad Lancashire accent. "We have a Corporation ratcatcher, but he goes for the wrong sort...
...Edwards produced onstage a succession of relatives, Army privates, British comrades-at-arms and ex-West Pointers, the general choked up as humanly as any other mortal. Vividly attractive Mrs. Clark recalled that they had first met on a blind date and that "he was a complete bust." The general affectionately reminded her of how she had sat on a bee, added thoughtfully that then "we got to know each other better...