Word: boast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lord Woolton plans to operate Selfridge's as a link in Lewis' chain, which has always boasted that in every city where it has an outlet, it has the biggest store. In London last week, the gossip was that Woolton planned to make Selfridge's big enough so that Lewis' boast would cover London...
...LaMotta's chin. LaMotta, whose own style is modeled on an alley-fighter's slugging tactics, never had a chance. By the end of Round Seven, bleeding from seven cuts, his eyes puffed almost to closing, and gagging on his own blood, durable Jake LaMotta, whose proudest boast is that he has never been knocked down, had had enough. Too weak to rise from his corner for Round Eight, LaMotta called it quits...
...control panel and with row on row of dials, and a plethora of red, green, and orange lights. From here operator can control everything on inside the big concrete walls. the operator, up against the wall, is a triple tier of counters on stilts which merrily click and boast little varicolored lights their own. Along the passageway to the gray edifice are large boxes with additional controls. Cyclotron consists of three major...
Yale's varsity, holder of the Cup, is the favored boat. The Elis boast of Victories over M.I.T., Penn, and Columbia, while Harvard has defeated M.I.T. twice and Dartmouth once. Yale's margin of victory over the Engineers three weeks ago was four seconds, however, compared to the Crimson's one second win last Saturday. The Tigers have also defeated Penn...
...Mobilizer Charles Wilson was going around announcing that Stalin would be "a dead duck"-if he attacked the U.S. any time after Jan. 1, 1953. In its unintentional invitations for Russia to attack while the coast was still fairly clear, it outdid Louis Johnson's famed fatuous boast: "If Joe Stalin starts something at 4 o'clock in the morning . . . America will...