Word: boast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard will face Hofstra next Monday--a team it has beaten regularly in past seasons. Rutgers, on April 2, will provide much tougher opposition. The Knights boast a powerful offense led by attackman Bob Valestra. Valestra scored six goals against the Crimson last year with one arm in a cast and his left leg wrapped from ankle to thigh. A healthy Valestra is beyond immediate comprehension
Matched Footmen. A couple of centuries ago, writes Turner, a gentleman with a comfortable income of ?2,000 a year "was betraying his class if he employed fewer than six women servants and five menservants; middle-class ladies in their 90s could boast that they had never made a pot of tea in their lives, a wealthy Englishman had a Frenchman to stir his soup, another Frenchman to comb his hair, an Italian to make his pastry, and half a dozen Englishmen to iron his Times, and his wife had a Frenchwoman to powder her back and an Englishman...
Through it all, Betancourt has gone a long way toward building a new foundation for an oil-rich nation that has long been victimized by a succession of dictators. Betancourt spoke a proud boast in Washington last week: "For the first time in Venezuela's history as a republic, a freely elected President has completed four years of his term in office." He seems a good bet to complete his full five years, and politically strong enough to influence the choice of a successor next year to carry on one of Latin America's most successful programs...
...free economy, profit has always been the essential measure of business success. Lately, U.S. business has been finding it harder and harder to keep its profits up, and rare indeed is the firm that can boast of raising its profits faster than its sales. Last week, reporting the largest sales and earnings ever made by a corporation, General Motors astounded the business world with its profits increase. While its sales climbed a respectable 28% over 1961 to $14.6 billion, its earnings rose an extraordinary 63%, to $1.459 billion. The question in many an impressed businessman's mind...
...popularity of AMC stock was its compact price. Even at last week's high, American Motors sold for less than half the cheapest of the Big Three stocks; yet its 10-to-1 price-earnings ratio was as good or better than the bigger automakers could boast. Another attraction to investors was the fact that AMC is one of the few big U.S. industrial corporations with no long-term debt to worry about; since its brush with bankruptcy in the early 1950s, the company has totally paid off its once crushing burden of debt, and such expansion...