Word: boast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist techniques in satellite countries. The extremes to which the British can go to hold on to the name of Empire is nauseating. In some cases, where the native people are really unable to govern themselves, colonialism could be excused for a time. But the Greeks can boast of the first and longest civilization in Europe...
...wretched $35 a year. El Faki helpfully installed 500 Egyptian schoolteachers, sent out and paid by the Egyptian government, supplied Egyptians for every level of officialdom. Two members of the Supreme Court were Egyptians, so was the commander of the small army. Last week El Faki could boast that 1,800 Egyptians are working in Libya today and drawing paychecks from both countries...
...preview visit to the museum earlier this year, Art News Editor Alfred Frankfurter pronounced the results to date "the only important public collection south of Richmond and east of the Pacific." Said he: "Those Texans, who boast about giving away Cadillacs as souvenirs at dinner, had better sit up and take notice. They've nothing to match...
...possible," Runner Iharos once said in a rare reach for the party line, "that ideology also helps in a psychological way, but the real answer is in training." There is, he was frank to admit, one other advantage that the hard-running Hungarians can boast over their capitalist competitors: no senseless squabbles over the difference between amateur and pro. Said he: "We have no professionals here. There are only amateurs. All athletes are workers...
When Johnson took over, the university had few things to boast about. It had a flourishing medical school, and its faculty included such teachers as Philosopher Alain Locke, the first and only Negro Rhodes scholar. But it had little money, and when Mordecai Johnson appeared before Congress to ask for more, one Representative bluntly warned him: "Young man, we may as well come to an understanding. We have no obligation to consider the needs of Howard." Johnson took his case to the Department of the Interior, persuaded Assistant Secretary Edward Finney that the Government had a "moral obligation...