Word: boast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christians would join the Wise Men we must close our eyes to all that glitters before the world and look rather on the despised and foolish things, help the poor, comfort the despised and aid the neighbor in his need. Do not boast that you have built churches and endowed masses. God will say: 'What to me are your churches and masses? . . . Who told you to build churches? I have set before you spiritual temples...
Morris Rubin, an alumnus, sums up: "This bunch doesn't feel the compulsion to boast about its conquests the way my generation did. Iwo Jima was all the proof of their manhood anybody required." One well-informed coed says: "As far as smooching, et cetera are concerned, there is considerable smooching-but not much et cetera...
Peronistas and opposition alike respected Bramuglia's integrity, his open dealing. Foreign diplomats found him easy to see and thoroughly a man of his word. Peron liked to boast that Bramuglia was exhibit A in the story of how a poor man could make the grade under his regime...
...cream of last year's third-place unit into a combination that is both tall and talented. The rest of the world quavers at the thought of the fluid, everybody-is-a-forward, Varsity-type system cooked up by Coaches Cliff Crosby and John Rockwell. The Bellboys also boast the only certain starting lineup: Jack Goldsmith and Wally Coulson at guard, Fred Donahue and Mike Post at forward and John Altroechi at center...
...making machinery. Fish are cleaned with such gadgets as automatic washing vats and electric-powered scale removers. For processing fish for hotels and other big customers, one company has built big tile workrooms that are as gleaming as a Hollywood steam bath. The market lives up to its boast: "If it swims, we handle it." The Fulton fishmongers supply such exotic morsels as Japanese frog legs, Alaskan king crabs, Indian pompano, Irish bloaters and South African alewives...