Word: boast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thanks to the Guardia, Somoza can boast: "I know every man in Nicaragua and what he represents." Thanks also to the Guardia, for twelve years he has owned and operated his little country (pop. 1,108,800), with its tiny upper class and sandaled proletariat...
Reporter Root outlined his views in somber detail in the Christian Century. Though he wrote even before the fall of Mukden, Root did not find it hard to believe the Communist boast of complete control of China within three or four years. If that should happen, what would be the prospects for Christianity...
According to the terms of the proposed agreement, all three gentlemen will sit down to a meal and whoever loses foots the bill. The local due are convinced they can upset Yale's answer to Man-mountain Dean because they boast palates "conditioned by copious amounts of Army chow, Southern barbeque, and Cambridge beans...
...with most of the lineup attack and immensely improved by a year of varsity experience the Bruins present what is rated as the second best eleven in New England. The men from Providence have rolled up some 2,400 yards in their first seven games, and boast a winning skein of six straight...
...delivers reader traffic from cover to cover ... in every income group"; the Journal that "more women buy the Journal issue after issue." TIME advertised itself as "the one major weekly whose circulation has doubled since the beginning of World War II." But none matched one magazine's proud boast that "our readers have more inside toilets than most people...