Word: boast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have ranked among the top 1½% on college board math exams; they must carry five subjects, including physics, chemistry and math. The lights in the rooms on M.I.T.'s 115-acre campus remain aglow far into the night, and the M.I.T. student slogan is both a boast and a sigh: "Tech is hell...
Gone was East Germany's boast that it could overtake West Germany in consumer-goods output this year. Goals were being set lower. The target of the East German economic growth rate for 1961 has been set at 7.2%, the lowest in years. Finally, drawing a deep breath, Leuschner announced the most painful cut of all. To speed up the flow of machine tools to the rest of the Communist bloc, he explained, East Germany's much ballyhooed aircraft factories are to be converted to making such workaday goods as hydraulic equipment, cutting-and-forming tools and conveyor...
Macmillan's plain talk must have startled South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, who arrived home from London prepared to boast about, not apologize for, leaving the Commonwealth. Verwoerd found many of his countrymen confused and uneasy. The morning of Verwoerd's return, police made predawn raids on the homes of eight African leaders, hauling them from bed to jail; in Johannesburg white hoodlums began beating up Africans in front of the city hall...
...middle distance and distance events, the trackmen boast a half-dozen strong runners. The best miler is junior Mark Mullin, who holds the University record of 4:10.6. He is followed by Jed Fitzgerald, this year's cross-country captain (4:10.8) and varsity captain Fred Howard...
...whose space was miraculously filled with a few flowing white splotches; his props were colored cardboard; and even his costumes were abstractions of Medieval clothing. Chris Avery and Robert Hoguet used the simplest imaginable lighting patterns, and somehow it all worked. Unbridled enthusiasm, which the best amateur productions usually boast as their highest achievement, here gave way to something much finer, style. Even if one understood only a few lines of the French, the movement on stage would have told the whole story and would have been, for its own sake, a delight to watch. Perhaps Morris's most brilliant...