Word: boast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Protest. Had he chosen, Franco could have made at least one valid boast. From the political doghouse to which it was banished along with Franco's erstwhile friends, the Nazis and Fascists, Spain is step by step returning to the community of nations. Franco's anti-Communism and his nation's strategic peninsular location have brought him an alliance with...
...Yunnan and Hupeh, Mao's government early last month reintroduced work norms and extra pay for "overfulfillment of the quota"-devices that had been abandoned in the heady, doctrinaire days of the great leap. This doubtless shocked the ideological zealots who only a few months ago were boasting that the slavery of the people's communes would mean realization of the Marxist ideal-"from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" -ahead even of Russia. That boast is no longer heard...
Brazil's Lott, 64, scheduled to arrive this week (see HEMISPHERE), could boast closer U.S. ties than the other guests. Lott's daughter is married to an American. One of Dutch-English-descended Teixeira Lott's 17 grandchildren is, as a result, Brazilian-American-descended William Nelson Monies, 8, of Springfield...
Ambushes & Air Raids. Since 1956 there have been repeated clashes in Tibet between Chinese garrisons and the hard-riding Khamba tribesmen, who boast that they go nowhere without their rifles, which they frequently use on everyone from rich merchants to officials from Lhasa to Communist cadres. Twenty-three years ago, when straggling parts of Mao Tse-tung's Eighth Route Army crossed Khamba territory on the famed Long March to Yenan, Khamba raiders picked off Reds by the dozens. Reportedly, Mao has never forgotten what happened-or forgiven...
Southern Rhodesia, most advanced of the three states in the Federation (it has been self-governing since 1923), likes to boast that, as a result of keeping its black majority firmly in a minority place, there has been no serious racial trouble for 50 years. But in the present grim atmosphere of expected violence, M.P.s in Salisbury began acting as if panga-bearing rebels were already chopping away at the great teak doors of the Assembly itself...