Word: boast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since the Berlin Wall was built in 1961, the number of East German escapes to the West has been cut by more than half, and the figure keeps dropping almost every month. The rest of Eastern Europe cannot boast the same success. Last year escapes from Yugoslavia, Rumania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Albania rose more than 20%, and so far this year they are up another...
...Best-Dressed list last year at the age of 22, she exclaimed, "But I buy everything off the racks at Bendel's." She was doing what comes naturally. No longer does the American society woman depend on Paris to supply her clothes. U.S. fashion can boast an elite handful of internationally famous "name" designers whose clothes, at their best, are as genuinely original as anything Paris has to offer. Lauren Bacall likes almost anything done by Manhattan's Norell, though she feels that Chanel has "a great look-but not necessarily today...
...month, in collaboration with Behavioral Psychologist Jerry Berlin, WAOK has brought together random groups of Atlanta Negroes and invited them to cut loose in undirected and virtually uncensored sessions of psychodrama. The participants, playing the most transparent kind of "roles," throw themselves into their own characters, fight, plead, argue, boast, complain and despair about everything from the V.C. to V.D. Put on tape and aired in varying spots throughout the day under the program name Family Line, the vignettes give a sharp, thoroughly unprettified glimpse into American Negro life...
...Balance Sheet. In a nation with a 25% literacy rate, the Parsis can boast that more than 90% of the sect's members can read and write. Despite the widespread hunger and poverty of India, the Parsi poor rarely starve; in the city of Bombay alone, one trust established by wealthy members of the sect provides low-income housing for more than 6,000 Parsi families and welfare payments for the unemployed...
...stock? If not, just what had he done to deserve firing? As of last week, no one was quite willing to say. Hall himself remained incommunicado in his expensive Houston home, emerged at one point in his bathrobe to shoo newsmen away. Outsiders could only recall the boast of one Westec official last May that, while Westec was not yet "a Litton, a Textron or other industrial giant, it is our intention to earn a position among such a line-up." Some lineup...