Word: boast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Guards have failed so far to make good their boast to export the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution to the rest of the world. But some signs of Mao Tse-tung's new way of doing things have cropped up in Red China's embassies abroad. Soon after he unleashed his teen-age zealots in Peking, Mao dispatched an order to his diplomats: act in a proletarian way, do your own dishes, tend your own garden, wear simple clothing, be frugal...
...that wheat is the only treasure of the prairie provinces. Another is potash, greatly in demand as fertilizer. Saskatchewan has so much of it underground that Premier Ross Thatcher may fairly accurately boast that his province not only grows the wheat that feeds the world, but also mines the potash that grows the wheat that feeds the world. At Esterhazy, the 3,200-ft.-deep corridors of a new $60 million International Minerals & Chemical Corp. mine glow in strobe lights, as drilling machines shear out the pink ore for export to Europe and Asia. Eleven more potash mines...
...Plus Side. For their money they get the greatest roster of international talent in a longer season than any other opera house. Nowhere but at the Met, for almost any given performance, could two complete casts be mustered that would boast such operatic deities as Sopranos Renata Tebaldi and Leontyne Price, Tenors Richard Tucker and Franco Corelli, Baritones Robert Merrill and Tito Gobbi, Bassos Cesare Siepi and Nicolai Ghiaurov-not to mention a bevy of most attractive younger sopranos such as Anna Moffo, Teresa Stratas and Mirella Freni...
...held the highly important post of "curator" of the Doge's art treasures. From then on, his reputation spread from northern Italy to northern Europe, until he became one of the most celebrated artists of the century. By the time he died, in 1770, he could boast frescoes and ceilings adorning royal palaces from Germany to Spain...
...offered to Judith Crist, who turned it down in favor of films. "That's where the action is," she says. "The snob appeal of theater reviewing is lost on me." The Trib's Eugenia Sheppard will edit the woman's page; her staff will boast Hearst's wry society columnist, Suzy Knickerbocker...