Word: boast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...capable of carrying 180 infantrymen (biggest U.S. model, due next year, will lift only 100). Though some of the planes on display were already known to Western aviation experts, and others were simply old models with new touches, the flypast made bunk out of Nikita's boast that Russia had consigned its warplanes to junk. Judging by what they saw, Western observers concluded that the Russians are roughly on a par with the U.S. in the quality of their fighters, clearly ahead in variety, if not quantity, of supersonic bombers...
Chen drew guffaws from his audience when he cited as the Nationalist government's most outstanding achievement its removal from Taiwan of all traces of Communist influence. "There is no Communist activity on the island," he asserted, adding with a half-smile, "No other nation can boast the same...
...cities-from New York and Baltimore to Detroit and Columbus -flocking to gaudily lit tracks, the "trots" were giving a good run to thoroughbred flat racing, which drew 34 million customers in 1960. And along with its burgeoning attendance records and parimutuel handles, harness racing had something special to boast about: its own Man o' War, a horse named Adios Butler, thought by many to be the best pacer ever...
...Nikita Khrushchev grandly picked up the tab for the Aswan Dam, such a turn of affairs could not have been imagined. But in Cairo last week, big red headlines hit the street. COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA ATTACKS US, cried one daily. RUSSIA TRIES BLACKMAIL, screamed another. Khrushchev, who used to boast of Egyptian-Russian relations as an example of how the Communists could get along with another nation "whose social system is different from ours," had abruptly turned his venom on Gamal Abdel Nasser...
...Nobody," says a fellow Bourbon Street trumpeter, "ever outblew Al." Even allowing for civic partisanship, the boast is not unreasonable. New Orleans Trumpeter Al ("The Monster") Hirt, 38, is a "center-lip" man who blows straight from the diaphragm and generates such a wind that trying to top him, testifies another associate, is like "blowing down the throat of a hurricane." In recent months, the hurricane has swirled through Las Vegas (The Dunes), Manhattan (Basin Street East) and the TV networks with an impact that has made Trumpeter Hirt one of the hottest properties in jazz...