Word: bustedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sent for a young local plant pathologist named Cestmir Novacek and ordered him to liquidate the nasty, crawling little capitalists. For five years everything went fine, and the "invasion" took little toll of Horazdovice's potatoes. This year, however, the potato harvest in the Pilsen area was a bust. The fact that it could all be blamed on the weather did not satisfy the Communists. Again the commissars sent for Pathologist Novacek...
...feels guilt in departing from his own principles; the other-directed, living in hope of the approval of his peers, is seldom free of a diffuse anxiety lest this approval be withheld. Riesman notes that from the walls of the inner-directed school, the ruins of Pompeii and the bust of Caesar often looked down-reminders of the past from which one learned the moral principles of history, part of the gyroscopic mechanism. These pressed stern standards upon a child -and many children were crushed. But the school for the other-directed has its own mural pressures. "The walls...
Television audiences for the first time got to watch the finals in the annual Miss America contest, run off at Atlantic City. The winner: San Francisco's 19-year-old Lee Ann Meriwether (5 ft. 8½ in., 124 Ibs.; bust 34½, waist 22, hips...
This unwarranted attack upon the bust of the American female both by foreigners without and traitors within must not go unimpeded...
...days of Handel (1685-1759), but the London prom proper was just 60 years old last week. To celebrate the occasion, dapper Conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent ("Flash Harry" to the trade) appeared before the crowd five minutes ahead of time. Bearing a laurel wreath, he strode purposefully to the bust of the late Sir Henry Wood, permanent prom conductor for its first half-century, and collared it. Promenaders cheered...