Word: bustingly
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...floor of Air Force One, and pumped away in his sweat suit at 37,000 feet over Asia in 1967. As he pedaled, he gave an interview to reporters on the glories of the first presidential circumnavigation of the globe. It was on this trip that he delivered a bust of himself to a startled Pope Paul VI in the Vatican on Christmas...
...innumerable scratches of a needle on a sheet of gold leaf, it presents a young man who, from his curly hair, might be a cousin of Leonardo's boyfriend Salai. It is not, of course, the only masterpiece of portraiture in the show. The tradition of the Roman portrait bust was kept and amplified among patrician families. The show is also exceptionally rich in objets de luxe, ranging from a golden Aphrodite set on a lapis lazuli shell to The Casket of Projecta, a bridal coffer, dug up in Rome late in the 18th century, but made around...
...seat high above the Atlantic, confesses to his tape recorder ("Father Sony") that his English sense of proportion and Catholic asceticism are at loggerheads with his outlandish success. Chatworth vacillates between such statements as "Conquer America-God what a shoddy ambition," and, like David Frost contemplating a bust of Emmy, "This is the country I want to impress, not the other one, and its approval is now pouring out of the slot like gold...
...alternative to passing the bill was letting Social Security go bust. Billions in revenue have been draining out of the system since 1975, primarily because of high unemployment and increases in benefits to keep up with inflation. In fiscal 1977 the deficit ran to $5.6 billion, v. system reserves of $46.1 billion. Without new revenues, the system was expected to go bankrupt in the early 1980s...
...more militant promoters of the farm strike demand that the Government boost price props so much that the price of wheat and corn would about double, cattle would go up 69% and hogs 47%. Doing that, warn Government agricultural experts, would bust the budget, raise domestic supermarket prices and squeeze U.S. farm products out of foreign markets. But the Carter Administration has made no effort to squelch the farmers' protests or strike plans. Says Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland: "I've talked to the President. The protests are a legitimate expression of concern. We're watching with sympathy...