Word: bustingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...police arrested more than 300 residents of that affluent suburb and of neighboring Concord early one Sunday morning a couple of weeks ago. The townspeople had joined members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War in a peaceful sit-in near the Minuteman statue on Lexington town green. When the "bust" came, the demonstrators lined up patiently and politely for the buses to carry them away for processing. Most of them were released after they paid a %5 park violation fine; charges of disorderly conduct were dropped. For many of the residents this was their first act of civil disobedience...
...past year.) Seventy-six per cent would object to their son becoming a hippie (making that avocation slightly worse than that of SDS leader, to which 75 per cent of the fathers recoil. Eighty-three per cent believe President Pusey was right in calling in the police to bust University Hall in '69. Only 25 per cent think victory in Vietnam is undesirable. Sixty-eight per cent support ROTC in public and private schools, while a good nine per cent more would also add sex education to the curriculum. Fifty-nine per cent of the class believe the law should...
...college boys, these were the people Scott Fitzgerald chronicled in This Side of Paradise, a first novel which caused a sensation during '21's junior year. They graduated into a world of raccoon coats and Warren Harding, crazy prosperity followed by a dizzying bust. During the final weeks of their spring reading period, Sacco and Vanzetti endured their first trial. In 1921, Lenin announced his New Economic Policy, Ezra Pound's first four cantos were published, and Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie hit the boards. Radio was catching...
...robbers game as a special officer of the Port Hueneme, Calif., police department and as a source of Mafia intelligence for the Los Angeles County district attorney's office. He developed a powerful aversion to the drug trade and took to riding around with the police, helping them bust drug dealers. Last year he and a bartender friend beat up a man after an argument over the treatment of a pet dog. Though Murphy was acquitted on a charge of attempted murder, the incident marked the depths to which he had fallen. Audie Murphy belonged to an earlier, simpler...
Hazlett Upson celebrates The Return of Alexander Bolts and his continuing correspondence with the brass at the Earthworm Tractor Company. The bust of Post Patriarch Benjamin Franklin is, of course, prominently displayed...