Word: busting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...inside or outside of the sect can remember why or how Gibbs became their greater godhead, except to recall that the only existing statue of Gibbs is a bust. However, some have speculated that this small group chose Gibbs on account of his small achievements...
Among the distinguished members of the Gibbs Society taking part at this year's 150th anniversary of Gibbs's birth were Nobel Laureate William N. Lipscomb, Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, who crowned the noble bronze bust of Gibbs, and George Kistiakowsky, Lawrence Professor of Chemistry Emeritus and former National Science Advisor. Kistiakowsky's dog, a Welsh Corgi named Nikki, gave a speech describing his encounters with Checkers during Kistiakowsky's tenure in the Eisenhower administration. Many Gibbsians believe that Nikki is actually the reincarnation of Darwin's Beagle...
...These guys bust their butts with little reward, but as the program gains more meets, hopefully more like this one (the GBC) will be held, so they can prove themselves," Berizzi concluded...
Then the adventurer becomes, of all things, a tobacco farmer in Pennsylvania's Amish country. No outsider knows more about the sect than Ogilvy, who scatters insights and anecdotes in his wake. He is a bust at farming, and at 38 he conquers Madison Avenue. His exploits there have been boomed in Ogilvy's bestselling Confessions of an Adman. Here he moves on to publicize his most complex and delightful client-himself...
...noisy and public enough to have been the bust-up of a particularly rocky Hollywood marriage, which in fact was just what it had been. The principals were the top executives at Transamerica, the San Francisco-based insurance-manufacturing-entertainment conglomerate, and the management of its United Artists subsidiary. With Oscar-winning smashes like Rocky and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, United Artists is Hollywood's most successful film producer. But after closing the books on their best year ever, U.A.'s entire brain trust, including Chairman Arthur Krim and President Eric Pleskow...