Word: boast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...business career at the most difficult place: the top. He was born William Wood, the son of a wealthy insurance executive. His father was a friend and distant cousin of eccentric Magnate Frederick Henry Prince, who played a dominant role in Armour for 15 years and liked to boast that he had built four U.S. railroads and controlled 46 others. Frederick Henry Prince lacked an heir: his younger son had been killed flying in World War I and his older son preferred the life of a gentleman farmer to business. Prince took a fatherly interest in bright young Cousin Billy...
Also playing at home Saturday, the fencers lost 10-7 to a powerful team from New York University. The visitors are defending NCAA champions and boast five Olympic swordsmen...
...small, unexceptional Italian port, an American operator-of-sorts (Mr. Bogart) is stranded with his wife (Miss Lollopalooza). Stranded with them are a small (but disciplined) 'group of intriguers, who boast some of the world's greatest faces. The stout Englishman, the spaghettilike Italian, the German exponent of German culture (Peter Lorre) and Mr. Bogart, with his own lovably singular mug, encompass the cinematic world of racketeers, spies, secret agents...
...immediate problem was finding reasons why Soviet agriculture had not lived up to his 1957 promises to overtake the U.S. in per capita production of grain, meat and milk by this year. Even by the Russians' own figures, the 1960 output was nothing to boast about: grain, 131 million tons (U.S. total: 176 million tons); meat, 8,725,000 tons (U.S.: 12.8 million tons). Khrushchev blamed all on his hapless underlings in the field, and the press spread his charges far and wide. "There," roared the boss, "sits [Nikifor] Kalchenko, member of the Central Committee, member of the Supreme...
...Crimson faces Cornell on Feb. 4 and Navy on Feb. 11. The Navy meet promises to be the toughest until Yale. The Midshipmen boast considerable strength in the breaststroke and the middle distance freestyle events, and may give coach Bill Brooks a real headache...