Word: bustingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...death of Fabian Fall '10, the President, in the summer of 1909 shocked his contemporaries, for the young Englishman had become a popular figure in his two years at Harvard. A marble bust of Fall stood in a niche in the Sanctum of the Plympton Street building until the late Sixties, when it was removed by person or persons unknown...
...Crimson was out with an extra soon after the Bust, just as it had issued an extra the day before, following the takeover Crimson editors were among the group of reporters from the most distinguished publications in the country who were arrested, and Crimson photographers were among the many whose cameras were smashed by police billy clubs...
...threat, the Nixon Administration in 1970 persuaded Congress to authorize preventive detention in the District of Columbia. This law allows judges to hold suspects for up to 60 days if a hearing establishes that they are dangerous. The much-touted law-and-order measure has proved to be a bust, however. Federal prosecutors have only tried to use it against 20 suspects, and the move ultimately failed in all but four cases. Detention has not even been sought for more than a year, and TIME has learned that the Justice Department has quietly all but given up on the idea...
...from as completely realized a scene as this. Fellini turns blithely to a tiresome sequence of a festival in Trastivere that culminates in a staged police bust of students. The camera crew then 'happens' across Gore Vidal, pontificating on the Decline and Fall of the Western world Fellini has run out of subject matter here; he has nothing in particular to say but innumerable ways of saying it. The film has no narrative, character, theme or even central emotion around which to structure events; it runs on the whimsy of the Fellini imagination. When that strikes fertile ground, there...
BOOM is a word that forecasters hesitate to use because it suggests-besides the delights of prosperity-a period of heated excess that sometimes leads to bust. But as they contemplate the prospects for the U.S. economy in 1973, the prophets are hard put to find any descriptive other than boom for what they foresee. The outlook is for a second straight year of strong growth in jobs, income, production, sales, profits-so much so that one of the prognosticators' problems is keeping their predictions optimistic enough. Lately they have had to add a few billion dollars to their...