Word: boast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...traditional boast of new war-planes-as of new automobiles-is that they are even faster, fancier and lovelier than their predecessors. No such claim can be made for the Navy's newest jet bomber, the A-7A Corsair II. Its touted virtues, in fact, include slowness, cheapness and unfashionably simple gadgetry...
...mammoth among the big ones is down at Princeton where the Tigers and Elis will square off for the Ivy and Big Three titles. Both Yale and Princeton boast 6-1 overall records (but Princeton's loss came in the League) and both have tremendous momentum...
...block of Negro homes may be followed by a block of white homes. The economic pattern is just as complex; a block of huge columned mansions screened from view by heavy oaks, crepe myrtles, or magnolia trees may be followed by a block of pleasant middle class homes which boast a few palms or maybe a banana tree, followed again by a block of near-shacks with a scraggly clump of gladiolas growing outside...
...kind of homespun hippie who can parry with Stokely Carmichael or trade one-liners with Jack E. Leonard. Though the caliber of guests only occasionally rises to a Bob Hope, it is also true that Douglas' program has become a profitable showcase for new talent. The producers boast that Comic Bill Cosby got his first national TV break on the show and that Barbra Streisand did her bit there a year before Funny Girl. A good deal of the show time, however, is devoted to warmed-over smorgasbord: Arthur Godfrey demonstrates his recipe for beans de luxe, Cassius Clay...
...says, that "the fan at my gate knows really that she's equal to me, and I take care to tell her that." John Lennon's remark that "we're more popular than Jesus," which set off an anti-Beatle furor last year, was not a boast but an expression of disgust. Though he phrased it ineptly, he was posing the question: What kind of world is it that makes more fuss over a pop cult than over religion...