Word: boast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Karamanlis' boast that Greece has prospered, Papandreou replied: "Numbers prosper, the people suffer." Farmers, who had benefited least from the boom because of low prices for their goods, got Papandreou's easy promise that he would forgive their debts. Above all, Campaigner Papandreou concentrated on the old 1961 charges of election fraud, cried that he was determined to save the nation from the "fascist and terrorist" policies of Karamanlis...
...hope is that Tridents will help Annapolis attract brighter high school seniors. "The Trident program," says one middie, "gives us something to boast about, a form of intellectual freedom and encouragement for scholarly inquiry that most fellows we know at other colleges don't necessarily have...
...Dicke (the Fat One). For 14 years, as economics minister, he had struggled alongside crusty old Konrad Adenauer to build a new nation out of war's rubble, and he had succeeded beyond all expectation: today West Germany has the strongest economy in all Europe and can boast a healthy growth of democratic roots. At 66, Ludwig Erhard is also by far the country's most popular politician. Meritably, the Bundestag gave him a whopping majority approval to take over from the retiring Adenauer...
Many executives like to boast that they spend up to 90 hours a week in their offices, but not George E. Keck, 51, the new president of United Air Lines. "I work hard," says Keck, "but I also believe in relaxing when there's time to relax." There may be less time from now on. Though peppery Pat Patterson will still pilot United from his new post as chairman, broad-shouldered, cigar-chewing George Keck will keep his eye for detail on all opera tions, travel at least 100,000 miles a year. Trained in operations and maintenance, Keck...
...outside educator to come in and start rebuilding Athens. But no outsider has been brought in since 1912, and most candidates would sniff at Boston's salary ($26,000). Odds are that an inside war horse will get the job and try to swallow Committeeman Lee's boast that "we've got one hell of a school system"-a statement that many critics dryly regard as right on the button...