Word: boast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grim, seasoned, Belgian-trained Katanga regulars in their steel helmets and jungle camouflage. Fighting and dying on a daily ration of a handful of maize, they dart stealthily from corner to corner, searching grimly for a target. After four days of fighting, the pickings are slim, for their proudest boast is that not a single U.N. soldier is to be seen in the city's core today...
Down with Durables. The Panglossians, says McMahon, can point out that three of the four U.S. recessions since World War II were due to special causes such as the post-Korean cuts in defense spending or the distorting effects of the 1959 steel strike. They can also boast that in boom and bust alike, personal spending on nondurable goods as well as local government expenditures have risen virtually continuously; yet "the U.S. has not suffered particularly severely from inflation." The Puritans, on the other hand, argue that U.S. consumer wants are sated and that the only hope of reviving demand...
Navy is one of the Crimson's four big challenges this year. Dartmouth is another--it is also an away meet, and the Indians have the advantage of their own pool, which visiting teams find disconcerting. A third is Princeton. The Tigers, who this year boast a topnotch breaststroker in Gardiner Green and an excellent backstroker in Jed Graef, as well as the best diving in the Ivy League, could give the Crimson trouble...
...Words." The reason for such limitations is the U.S. dogma of "vocabulary control"-holding down each reader to only a few new words. The rules are often "downright exquisite," says Trace. Widely used readers boast that "no new words" appear for 100 pages or more; the old words are endlessly repeated; the stories are inevitably dull. "Insipid, trivial, inane, pointless," Trace calls them...
...plot to put the little man out of business. German law forbids any claims that one product is better than a competing one; also banned are "Brand X" comparisons, bonus coupons, boxtop gimmicks, free tie-in offers and two for the price of one. An adman in Germany may boast that his client's soap washes white-but not whiter or whitest. Thus Y. & R. could not advertise that Remington shavers "have the biggest shaving head." But Remington captured 30% of the shaver market anyway, following another Y. & R. campaign of four-color newspaper...