Word: boast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...metropolitan area accounts for 5% of the gross output and income of the entire U.S. In metropolitan areas of more than 1,000,000 population are 44% of all U.S. manufacturing companies, 43% of all their employees, and 48% of the nation's manufacturing payroll; these areas also boast 62% of all the retail stores in the U.S. In providing for its citizens' needs, the big cities are the nation's biggest customers: it takes 800,000 truck trips daily to provide Chicagoans with their food, clothing and other necessities; New Yorkers each year require about...
...Hollow Boast. Sitting nervously among the big nuclear powers were the eight "middlemen" of the U.N. disarmament meeting, the delegates of Brazil, Burma, Ethiopia, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Sweden and Egypt. Many were utter novices in the murky technicalities of the cold war, but, being wooed by both East and West, they soon rallied under the leadership of India's V. K. Krishna ("The Unspeakable") Menon. Brazil's Foreign Minister Francisco San Thiago Dantas, for example, criticized the Soviet Union for last fall's tests, went right ahead to urge the U.S. to cancel its own spring series...
...while this particular edition doesn't boast many more outstanding individuals than in past years, it has a good deal more depth, especially in the middle-distance and field events, generally weak varsity areas...
Yale stands 7-15 on the season, and 3-6 in the League. The Elis can boast two of the League's ranking pointmakers, Coley Burke and Bill Hildebrand, and a competent goalie in Nelson. But in general the Bulldogs are slow and unpolished; in the clash at New Haven. Yale relied on a swarming defense of questionable legality to contain the varsity...
Before long, Milton Hershey was a multimillionaire who could boast, "I have made all the money I need; what I want to do is put it to work so that it will benefit others." By the time he died at 88 in 1945, Hershey had built most of the town of Hershey and turned it over to his estate for use by the town's 6,000 residents. Among his gifts: a $3,000,000 community house, a junior college, three schools, two country clubs, four golf courses, an amusement park, two swimming pools, an ice rink, a hotel...