Word: boast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issues would have important bearing on the races-but the party's national face mattered too, and that face last week was still sour, its voice complaining and its attitude carping. Even National Chairman Guy Gabrielson himself reflected some of that mood. Retorting to the President's boast (see above), Gabrielson dourly undertook "to remind the American people . . . just what five years of Truman has meant to them," showing how the country was really in terrible shape. Cried Gabrielson: "The American people will not again be misled by slanders and libels . . . They will not again be beguiled...
...Crimson goes into the match the underdog, as the Tigers this year boast one of the most powerful teams in the country. Gil Bogley, National Junior Champion, will probably play number one for the Orange and Black squad of nationally ranked amateurs...
...American Medical Association, which likes to boast that the U.S. has a bigger percentage of doctors than any country in the world (except burgeoning Israel), last week announced that its new directory will list 201,278 doctors in the continental U.S.-one for every 750 people, in an estimated population of 151 million...
Other houses have their towers to boast about, but who needs a tower? We don't have anything to boast about so never does the poor freshman hear about us. But once they're here they soon realize we have the best of the seven houses. Hugh C. Foster...
...says frail, blue-eyed English Painter Matthew Smith: " 'It's easy to have talent at 20 but what is difficult is to have talent at 50.' " Last week Artist Smith, with a big show of watercolors, drawings and oils at London's Redfern Gallery, could boast plenty of talent...