Word: boast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kept his worries within the official family, obeyed orders, and waited for the next chance at temperate persuasion. The sum total of his influence slowly moved the U.S. toward military realism, yet he had few personal victories to record. He could never bring himself to break security and either boast or speak out against his critics, but the criticism cut him deep. "Public service," he once observed, "is no place for an introvert...
Such political sponsorship as the fumbling revolt may have had appeared to have been from the Conservative party. Montevideo sources reported that Conservatives dominated the rebels' list of future government ministers. Though the Conservatives boast some of Argentina's best political brains, they are not a popular party...
...around here and haven't yet acquired that refined, cultivated apathy which evidently marks the Harvardman's attitude to sports and intercollegiate athletics. Sure, we have top teachers, a peerless curriculum, and the best of facilities, but our gut and fight is something that I wouldn't boast about. The CRIMSON doesn't have much to crusade about nowadays, why not help out here? it seems to me that a university newspaper holds the privilege of improving its school spirit. Let's begin by getting some meat in our cheerleaders. For better or worse, we're co-ed. How about...
...Senator Joe McCarthy shrilled as insistently as the cicadas in summer's dog days, stirring distrust and fear. Both national chairmen of the nation's major parties stood accused of dipping political fingers into the RFC's bottomless jampot. In the last decade, the U.S. could boast of an enormous stride forward toward racial tolerance and understanding. Yet in Illinois last week, a grand jury of citizens exculpated the men who led the ugly Cicero race riots, indicted instead a man who pleaded for justice...
Gold Star mothers cried along the route from Boston to Springfield. Dignitaries became tongue-tied with admiration. Children waved and will boast forever as people boasted at the turn of the century about seeing Teddy Roosevelt...