Word: bustingly
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...course, this would mean that most of those nice big stadia--like Harvard's--would go unfilled, an that in turn would mean fewer dollars. But a program of gradual deflation now could prevent a bust later. Any stockbroker can tell you about that, and it's not hard to imagine what would happen the day Notre Dame finally gets its corner on the player market. Big Ten would fall off 28 points in the first ten minutes' trading, and not even the million and a half dumped on the market by the Pacific Coast and Southern houses could hold...
...month. Not even at the start of the '29 depression had industrial production taken such a dismaying tumble. Even the prophets of doom, who had feared & forecast a recession for four long years, had hardly expected such a change from boom to something that looked suspiciously like bust...
...unrelenting semi-deification bestowed on Joseph Stalin during the celebrations of his 70th birthday. Throughout, a super-lifesized head of the celebrant grinned down from the heavens above the Kremlin upon his worshiping subjects. It was quite a nice trick, too; the head (and a discreet portion of bust, to suggest that it was still fixed to a body) was suspended from balloons and illuminated by huge spotlights...
...marble bust of plump, pretty Sabine (aged two),by her father, famed French Sculptor Jean Antoine Houdon (1741-1828), was bought by Philanthropist Edward S. Harkness and is still owned by his widow...
...young in heart, well-upholstered but hopefully just about to reduce, relentlessly uplift-minded and bewilderedly civic-conscious. Overwhelmed by the mysteries of the inheritance tax, the Hokinson matron asked: "How much would my tax be if I left it all to the government?" With a memorable culture-or-bust look, she inquired of a bookstore clerk: "Isn't it about time another one of John Gunther's 'Insides' came out?" And she begged her hairdresser: "Now please bear in mind that I am not Ingrid Bergman...