Word: bustingly
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...since it encourages partner to reply if he has a little help but does not compel him to reply even when he has no help. To bid two, Mr. Culbertson's hand must be so strong that if partner replies with two no-trumps (standard indication of a "bust''), Mr. Culbertson can either let the declaration stand or take it out with a bid of three in some suit. Opponents of the Culbertson system maintain that he has no way of indicating a hand that is one trick or even two-tricks stronger than the requirements...
...view either was the prize exhibit, a monumental bust of the Chompeen by Polygnotos Vagis entitled "Concentrated Power." Nobody had money enough to move it uptown from 12th Street...
...repudiate payment of most of Chile's foreign obligations and to "bust" the Guggenheim-controlled Cosach (nitrate trust) was the campaign pledge last week of two out of Chile's three leading candidates for the Presidency...
Advertisements in cheap, pornographic ("love" and "art") magazines conform to the standard of their fiction and illustrations but often fall a step lower. Pages are packed with announcements of "red hot" photographs, vigor tablets ("Glow of Life"), bust developers, sex secrets, aphrodisiacs ("Essence of Ecstasy"), contraceptives. Plentiful also are the advertisements of so-called matrimonial bureaus which will furnish lists of lonely men & women, object matrimony. Stressed in the advertisements, prominent on the lists are Wealthy Widows. Sample advertisements...
...shown the large square desk, with drawers, built-in ink-stands and space for a beerstein, which turns out to have a piano inside it. And in Bechstein's house in Berlin (not far from the sumptuous Bechstein salon in new. smart West End) rests the white marble bust of Richard Wagner which the composer sent in gratitude...