Word: boast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...illiterates who gather around in regularly formed groups called "reading rings." The papers are understandable to even the simplest fellah because the Amins and their staff have developed a clear, simple Arabic style that is already being imitated all over the Middle East. They live up to their boast that "Akhbar el Yom helps you" by supplying free legal help to readers, and pay their staff the highest newspaper wages in the Middle East...
...boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r"; "The paths of glory lead but to the grave"; "Full many a flower is born to blush unseen"; "Some mute inglorious Milton"; "Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife"; "The noiseless tenor of their...
...annual scattering of honorary degrees was just about done, and by last week the nation could boast of some 1,500 new doctors. A good showing was made by the generals, e.g., Clay, Hershey and Bradley, but this year Old Favorite George C. Marshall, in retirement on his farm in Leesburg, Va., was notable by his absence. Alltime Champion Herbert Hoover added only one more to his stock of 74 degrees. But Bernard Baruch ("I've given up receiving awards in public. I don't know how many I have") got none at all, and last year...
...Schumacher's Social Democrats (the SPD) control nearly a third of the Bundestag, have the support of 28 newspapers, command the voting allegiance of most of West Germany's 6,000,000 trade unionists, and boast 650,000 dues-paying regulars. Schumacher has built up a vast Socialist intelligence service. Through the big Socialist following in East Germany, he commands the best intelligence available of what the Russians and German Reds are up to. The U.S. and British occupation officials have found it invaluable...
Johnson went abroad to study while still in his 20s, and returned to the U.S. with far more knowledge of his craft than Gauguin could boast. He painted to please his customers, in the accepted tradition of sentimental realism. Tobacco-juice brown was his favorite hue. A particularly crabbed critic once remarked that Johnson's best work "ranges from cute to nice," but it did please the customers. Johnson died famous in 1906, and descended at once into obscurity...