Word: boast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vegetable oil; kerosene-burning hurricane lanterns are supplanting the traditional Aladdin-like mud diva in peasant huts, and well-to-do farmers often buy a second lantern to hang outside as a sign of affluence. Though most villagers still prefer cooking fires of cow dung, some huts now boast $2 oil stoves. Rural electrification is also spreading, but slowly, with an estimated 80% of India's power requirements still supplied by animal and human effort. The current Five-Year Plan calls for less than 10% of India's villages to be electrified...
With a "College Board" of some 1,500 girls who spend their spare time contributing news of campus fads and fashions, the fashion magazine Mademoiselle may well boast one of the largest unpaid reportorial staffs in the publishing world. The only reward for correspondents comes each spring, when 20 of the comeliest and most conscientious are entertained and photographed in New York and then packed off for a week's gaiety in Europe...
...weekly. Fieldston's 660 kids enjoy an 18-acre campus in the Bronx, a curriculum strong in arts, crafts, music and ethics (compulsory every year). Two of the oldest schools in the land, Collegiate (founded in 1638) and Trinity (1709), cling to their traditions of classical schooling, also boast student bodies of high IQ ratings...
...turned to another opera house. For New York's new Metropolitan at the Lincoln Center, he is designing more than 75 costumes and 13 sets for its forthcoming production of Mozart's The Magic Flute. And when the Met opens in 1966, its facade will boast a brace of 30-ft. by 35-ft. murals, swarming with the turbulent will-o'-the-wisps of his own endless fantasy. From their vantage on the Met's grand tier, the over-two-story-high murals will glow through the glassed vaults to dominate a city vista more spacious...
...start by getting the county civil-service commission to set new rules aimed at sharply upgrading his 210 deputies, of whom only 15 are college graduates. In the first such action by a major U.S. police force, Sheriff Clark now demands that every one of his future deputies boast at least a bachelor's degree. If he can also raise the pay (current maximum: $6,996 a year), he may well set a new U.S. police standard...