Word: boast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite occasional warnings, the U.S. public has had a comfortable feeling about the nation's Air Force. Its generals boast of its power to devastate any area anywhere in the world. The superiority of U.S. planes is an article of U.S. faith. The U.S.'s "overwhelming" air superiority, the public has been told again & again, is all that has kept the U.N. in Korea...
...labor federation (C.G.T.), raised the hair of his countrymen by plunging Paris into darkness, freezing the railroads and docks, introducing the quickie strike (grève éclair) and the slowdown (grève perlée). A red-hot anarcho-syndicalist risen from the factories, Jouhaux liked to boast that if war came, labor in all Europe would quench it by a general strike. But when war came, Jouhaux was a Frenchman after all. ("Heinous traitor," shrieked Lenin...
...traveled in India, studying plantation management by living with cocoa and rubber planters. He returned to Ecuador in 1919 to manage his family's plantation. Later he founded the first meat packing business in Ecuador. During the inter-war period, Stagg traveled so frequently that he can boast, "I have never spent more than two consecutive years on the same continent during the past forty years." His travels took him to China, India, Japan, Polynesia, Galapagos Islands, and Europe...
Florence Umberhocker Bratten had served for 25 years as confidential secretary to Alben Barkley. A plump and jolly woman, she liked to boast that she had a first-name friend in every office in the Government. One of her friends was Charles E. ("Chuck") Shaver, counsel for the Senate Small Business Committee. In the 1948 and 1950 campaigns, Shaver was Barkley's personal aide...
...Exeter boast wins over Belmont High. Dartmouth and Yale freshmen, while the Crimson has defeated Tabor and Milton Academies by 10 to 1 and 2 to 1 scores...