Word: boast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...international scene, where it has assumed many heavy burdens since World War II. Were it not for the commitments that it has made to help other nations prosper and to build up the defenses of the free world, the U.S. would be able to boast a nice fat payments credit. With that in mind, many economic thinkers are seriously examining what steps might be taken to improve the balance of payments, short of the undesirable measures of devaluing the dollar or imposing controls on capital movements. Among the possibilities that might be explored...
Array of Power. As a candidate, Nelson Rockefeller has at his fingertips an array of power and talent that few politicians in the land can boast. His personal fortune is estimated at between $100 million and $200 million (it would, wags say, make Jack Kennedy the poor man's candidate in any race with Rockefeller...
...steel industry is proud of the axiom that "As steel goes, so goes the economy." Increasingly, this boast is challenged by those who say that the growing switch to such substitute materials as aluminum and concrete makes steel a lot less basic than it once was. But steel is still the biggest single force in U.S. industry, still directly provides the bread and butter of one U.S. industrial worker...
...public art museums commonly boast that they are thronged. Their critics commonly reply that of course museums are thronged: most of what they show is free, while ball games, for example, cost real money. Last week came proof that Americans in big numbers are quite willing to pay well to see great art. The proof fell naturally to Pablo Picasso, art's biggest box-office draw. During May, nine Manhattan galleries joined to present a comprehensive showing of Picasso's work for the benefit of the Public Education Association. In the four weeks that the exhibition ran, more...
Nagasaki and Hiroshima have long since risen from their ruins and boast broad, Western-style boulevards, handsome parks, shining new industrial plants. Yet despite their shared nightmare, in outlook and atmosphere there are hardly two more dissimilar cities in Japan. Hiroshima today is grimly obsessed by that long-ago mushroom cloud; Nagasaki lives resolutely in the present. Though in fact U.S. fire bombs took more lives more painfully in Tokyo than the combined death toll of both A-bombs, Hiroshima has made an industry of its fate-even to naming bars and restaurants after the Bomb. Comparing Hiroshima with other...