Word: bustingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...stopped momentarily on the street to watch an undercover drug bust which had occurred on the corner during our tour of the funhouse. We left as one of the narcs was shaking down a pimply young suspect...
MANIFEST DESTINY. The Land of Opportunity. California or Bust...
...which have been rocked for three years by disastrous loans in energy and, more recently, in real estate. Texas banks have come under heavy pressure from federal regulators to own up to their losses by adopting more forthright accounting methods. One elite bank that seemed impervious to the energy bust, Texas Commerce Bancshares (assets: $20.7 billion), startled the financial community earlier this month with a disclosure that its first-quarter profits would decline 35%, to $30 million, its first quarterly drop in 16 years...
...year FBI veteran, had been involved on the sly in the same drug deals he was assigned to monitor. According to official sources, Mitrione, while working on a project code-named "Operation Airlift," sold the more than 90 lbs. of cocaine skimmed from the Memphis bust for cash and property worth about $850,000, and took bribes from the drug traffickers he was investigating. Said FBI Director William H. Webster: "The corrupting power of drug money is one of the obvious reasons why this No. 1 crime problem must be overcome. This sad case illustrates our relentless determination to police...
...Wartburg Castle, where Luther, in disguise, completed his translation of the New Testament while hiding out from Catholic wrath and Wagner set his opera Tannhauser. In Leipzig, a sterner Bach is memorialized outside the Thomaskirche by both a full-length statue and, not far from the church, a bust dedicated by Felix Mendelssohn. Genius pays homage to even greater genius: it was the romantic Mendelssohn, a Christianized Jew, who in 1829 revived Bach's greatest religious work, the towering St. Matthew Passion, and in so doing unwittingly canonized...