Word: boast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This second annual sophomore-junior dance will also boast a speakeasy to make the barmaids feel at home, a tinttype photographer, a magician, Jeanne Dinsmore '52 teaching the Charleston, the Harvardians and the Dunster Dances...
...week's end the French strike situation eased; longshoremen were going back to work. Still, the Communists repeated their boast that French dock workers would not handle military shipments from the U.S. when they arrived. Any obstruction at the ports, the government warned in a radio broadcast, will be met by "the patriotism of the French and the force...
Thus, when the convention broke up the Progressives could still boast that their machine was trundling toward their own special sunlit horizon. But as it rolled offstage, a good many members appeared to be pushing-the engine still didn't seem to turn over very well...
...describing the evolution of his longshoremen's union, he described himself as an old-fashioned radical who took the help of Communists or anyone else if it meant helping the union. But he denied that the comrades had ever controlled him. "I don't want to boast," he said, "but I've forgotten more about the waterfront than [they] ever knew. It's utterly ridiculous...
...wall by such devices as government production quotas deliberately made so high that he cannot fill them. Often he must give up his private holding because he has failed to meet a quota, or he may be sentenced to one, two or three years' imprisonment. The commissars boast: "We make great prog ress. By 1951 half the land in Yugoslavia will be socialized...