Word: boast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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French plumbing is infamous, and so are French plumbers (not that their American colleagues are much to boast about either). It is commonplace for a French operative to take days or weeks to answer a call, then, after fumbling about for a bit, to leave a flood where only a drip had existed before. Capitalizing on the general state of disrepair among France's repairmen, SOS's two young owners have built up a $1,000,000-a-year business out of providing prompt and relatively effective service. Gerard Verger, 33, and Joel Laval, 31, started SOS (telephone...
...less a connoisseur than Jack ("Legs") Diamond tagged him as the toughest. And Legs spoke from experience. One night the famous hoodlum declared that he was going to get Broderick. First Grade Detective Broderick, Shield No. 226, heard about the boast and went looking for Legs. "I understand you've been looking for me," growled Johnny as some of Legs's backup men started drifting away. "Ah, hell, Johnny, can't you take a joke?" asked a worried Legs. "Not from you, y'bum," replied Broderick as his left hook mashed Diamond into unconsciousness...
Going into the 8 p.m. contest, the Indian skaters boast a 5-5 record overall, and place ahead of the Crimson in the Ivy standings with a 1-1 mark. But three of Dartmouth's victories were registered over weak teams from New Hampshire, Norwich, and Middlebury...
...Charletan" than any other French publication. Nor does it spare anyone else who merits attack. Last week the eight-page weekly celebrated 50 years of ridiculing the high and the mighty, the smug and the pretentious in French life. Proud of the Duck's surviving without mellowing, staffers boast: "The duck still has all its teeth...
...from common men as soon as he could and avoided them when possible, it was from common men that his invention took flight. "The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements," he once said. His boast was that "I could not spend an hour in anyone's company without getting the material to write at least a readable story about...