Word: boast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...court's constitutional function, must be exercised with the utmost restraint." He took special exception to Earl Warren's citing of the 81 times the Supreme Court has declared acts of Congress unconstitutional. That, said Felix Frankfurter, ad-libbing in his opinion, was not much to boast about-especially since a good many of those decisions had later been reversed by the court itself...
...brunt of the recession. President Avery C. Adams, of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., No. 4 in the industry, announced that J. & L.'s orders climbed slightly during the first twelve days of March, though nothing to get excited about yet. Nevertheless, Adams expected to make good his boast of turning a profit at 50% of capacity. Said he: "We were in the black in January and February, and we expect to be in the black this month...
Overzealous Polarismen, clocking this swift progress, are certain now that they have the ultimate deterrent to all-out thermonuclear war. The U.S. might as well get ready to scratch the Air Force's Strategic Air Command, they boast, since 40 Polaris subs (life span: 15-20 years), along with the necessary hardware, crews, tenders and a few extra bases, would cost only $7 billion-and that would about pay for all the deterrent the U.S. needs...
Artillery: A new Soviet 203-mm. gun-howitzer can be emplaced for firing within minutes (compared to 36 hours for the World War II version), throws a conventional or nuclear shell 15 miles. The U.S. 8-in. howitzer is comparable but less mobile. The Russians boast a 240-mm. breech-loading mortar that doubles as an infantry and short-range artillery weapon. While its value in modern warfare is questionable, the U.S. has no counterpart...
...signing the books, until either its capacity had been reached or the official deadline arrived. Isolated idealism of this sort, however, was native in a situation so inherently unprincipled at its roots. The thousand and one vices and foibles of the system have long been concealed by the democratic boast that "everyone who wants to, makes a club." Jim Ridgeway, chairman of The Daily Princetonian, published an editorial warning Prospect that its policy would prove disastrous, that one club would be used as a scapegoat and dumping ground by the irresponsible other sixteen, who could then continue the old boast...