Word: boast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contains a chapter headed "Our Recipes-Haute and Not so Haute." The negative approach is big these days. Holt, Rinehart & Winston has put out The Madison Avenue Cookbook "for people who can't cook and don't want other people to know it." It advises readers to boast that they can "cook the pans off practically everybody" and contains recipes for "Status Stew" and "Stuffed Softsell Crab." Also in bookshops is something called Why Cook: 218 Recipes by One Who Can't, and another called The I Hate to Cook Book, with such slothful recipes as "Chilly...
...make it sound as if men are working harder and harder, when in fact machines may simply have replaced so many people that the work ers left seem more efficient. At any rate, the economy is enjoying a remarkably prolonged rise in productivity. Business men do not like to boast about it open ly, lest unions ask for higher wages or shorter hours, but industrial productivity has been rising some 3.5% annually dur ing the current, 29-month-old upswing in business - far above the nation's long-term average gain of 2.2% a year...
...from Southampton one afternoon last week, were 1,700 Britons who had paid only $28 each for the 21-day, 12,000-mile voyage to Australia. If the tourist-class passengers were getting a bargain, they represented an even greater boon for population-hungry Australia, which still likes to boast that it is "more purely British than Britain" and has spent $128 million since 1945 to lure close to a million emigrants from the mother country...
...York, Philadelphia, or Baltimore. Few of them ever intended to stay away (family roots are extremely strong among Chestertown Negroes), and by the time the war began most of them were back, in view of the homes where they had been born. But even today some of them boast of how "Mrs.--called my husband the best kitchen man she had even seen." And despite years of suscribing to national newspapers, they are far more conscious of the private life of the hiring class than of the international events that have surrounded them. For example, one night my landlady gave...
...does the firing. Krock, who works out of his Worcester, Mass., office, is the chief strategist and financial planner. Huffines handles the lawyers, soothes the stockholders and sews up the corporate details that the more flamboyant Muscat and Krock would rather not bother with. Suits & Skeptics. The three Muscateers boast that they have turned Defiance Industries' 1961 loss of $384,500 into a 1962 profit of $497,000. But critics say that much of the gain was due to changes in bookkeeping, plus the surprising inclusion of profits from one subsidiary that Defiance had not even taken over until...