Word: boast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ulen's backstroker, Bob Branard, will have to hustle tonight in the backstroke, as the lads from down the Charles boast a powerful operator in John McCabe...
...bullnecked, grey-haired, 55-year-old defender of John Lewis, is general counsel for the A.F.L. and the archetype of the U.S. labor lawyer. As confidant, adviser, defender of Jimmy Petrillo, Dan Tobin and many another A.F.L. chieftain, Joe Padway has written both labor history and labor law, could boast of many a thwacking from Columnist Westbrook Pegler. He was born in Leeds, England, came to the U.S. as a youth, was admitted to the Wisconsin...
Arthur Mitchell is a silken-voiced pundit who makes his living from an erudite radio program called "The Answer Man." Last week, despite the boast that he would "answer any questions not violating professional ethics," Mitchell found himself in a spot. He didn't know the answer...
...Bill has been kind to Ulen, but even kinder to Dartmouth, who can almost certainly boast in Erstock an Ivy League breast stroke champ, and to Yale in supplying Edward Heuber, and Intercollegiate pace-setter, who in October stopped the watch at 51.7 seconds for the hundred freestyle...
...Crusaders are experienced and huge--so huge that the Crimson front wall should be hard put to hold its present national lead in defense. The Holy Cross line averages well over 200 pounds, and almost all of its operatives have had considerable experience. The Crusaders also boast a large array of backs, all of whom are good at single specialties, but not possessing too much versatility. It has been this defect--passers that cannot run, runners who cannot pass, and kickers who can neither run nor pass--that has been attributed as a major cause of the Purple's misfortunes...