Word: boast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uncanny ability to find the right man for the job. And whatever the job, the right man usually was a catcher-one of a remarkable Yankee trio whose versatility, both at bat and in the field, is unmatched in baseball history. In a season when both major leagues can boast fewer than half a dozen topflight catchers, the three best belong to the Yankees: ·YOGI BERRA. At 36 the oldest of the Yankee catchers, stumpy (5 ft. 8 in., 191 Ibs.), durable Yogi Berra is nearing the end of his 19-year baseball career. No catcher in history...
...neighbor, Senegal, of helping the rebels; Senegal retaliated by promptly breaking off diplomatic relations with Lisbon. Even the large and prosperous East African colony of Mozambique, which has so far been quiet, is stirring with nationalist fervor. Mozambique rebels in nearby Tanganyika, given asylum by Prime Minister Julius Nyerere, boast that they will soon turn the colony into "another Angola...
...Hams boast of far more historic achievements than playing cuddly over the air waves. They have made notable contributions to the radio arts; their experimentation and enthusiasm, for example, has led to widespread use of single sideband radio. In 1957, ham operators helped track Russia's Sputnik when U.S. scientists were caught without an effective radio tracking setup. In the Congo crisis last summer, a Leopoldville ham picked up a message from a remote part of the Congo that said: "We need help; five women, eight children, four men cut off for days. Two women raped." Within hours, Belgian...
...whiskery buss from the poet who brought candy and read letters was probably just one more puzzling event in a confusing war. Whitman knew his own nature, even if the boys did not, and he was at pains to conceal it from the world. (Later he was to boast of eleven illegitimate children.) When peace brought the hospital visits to an end, Whitman kept writing to the boys, although few answered. One exception was Peter Doyle, a veteran who worked as a conductor on the Washington-Georgetown City Railroad. For all his fond words to his "own loving boys...
Though the French boast more bicycle races than any other nation-close to 300 a year-the Tour de France is the most expensive, prolonged and perilous marathon of them all. This year's Tour pitted 132 brawny-thighed riders against a brutal 2,750-mile course. Starting at Rouen, the race cut through Belgium, leaped the Alps into Italy, streaked across the south of France into the Pyrenees, and wound northeast along the stately Loire to Paris. The sunburned, dust-caked riders quit at 5 p.m. each day, laying over at night in Tricolor-draped towns that paid...