Word: bustedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visitors seemed determined to pay him tribute. They queued up hour after hour to visit his house, decked his bust with flowers, trudged through rain and mud to place wreaths on his tomb. Finally they gathered in the great Ceremonial Hall, and as each one rose to congratulate the university, the forbidden name seemed to pop up, again and again and again. At the end of the ceremony, Rector Pedro Lain Entralgo of the University of Madrid launched into an impassioned eulogy of "one of the Spanish masters who will live forever, long after many generations have died...
...Bare's second wife, Brenda Bruce always stays one step ahead of her husband. A cute, frilly looking blonde, her Monroeian bust almost obscures an ability to handle a bank account as well...
There were some rather conventional heads; softer, less formal busts, mostly in terra cotta; small plaques, mostly religious in subject; two lead statues, Standing Figure of a Boy and The Bird Boy, both pseudo-Grecian, idealistic pieces. Outshining them all was a bust of Augustus John, a shaggy, forceful bronze that seemed like a quick-frozen hunk of the old man. Said Time & Tide: "A searching interest in humanity . . ." Reported Fiore: "Augustus said I was a master. He may have been a little tipsy at the time, but I think he meant...
...living standards. The continuation or discontinuation of work on the canal is not essential." In other words, work on the canal had been dropped, and the reason given fitted in with the Kremlin's big switch from capital goods to consumer goods. Actually, the canal project was a bust. Nearly two-thirds of the scheduled construction time had elapsed before work was stopped, but less than six of its 50 miles had been finished...
...welcoming party was confused and missed his arrival. When he finally caught up with the President, Quantico Commandant Lieut. General Clifton B. Gates was blushing like a buck private on the ist sergeant's carpet. "Sorry we gummed up this detail, sir," he said. "It is the first bust we have had." Ike thought it was a fine joke...