Word: boast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other food supplements. At juice bars in Los Angeles' 35 "health" stores, a new sensation is a pink, high-protein cocktail, concocted of dried eggs, powdered milk and cherry-flavored No-Cal, which sells for 59? per 8-oz. glass. Grocery stores sell dozens of foods that boast of having almost no food value...
...terms of the new heavy rubles that are to replace the old ones Jan. 1 at the conversion rate of ten to one (the new ruble is officially declared to be worth $1.11, presumably so that it can be described as more valuable than the U.S. dollar-an academic boast, since the Russians do not allow the ruble to venture outside Russia). In the usual propaganda fashion, Finance Minister Vasily Garbuzov proclaimed that defense spending would be cut in 1961, while allocations to science would rise by 15% over last year. Since the Soviet Union is obviously not disarming, this...
...gift from his wealthy father. Almost overnight Hearst turned his wan and unimpressive present into the gaudy forerunner of a 26-paper chain,* and within four years he had sent it soaring ahead of the rival Chronicle on the way to a supremacy reflected in the proud masthead boast: "The monarch of the dailies." Last week, after nearly seven decades as Northern California's biggest and most influential newspaper, the Examiner was deep in a fight to see who would be king of the mountain. Once again its opponent was the Chronicle -though the heavy loser in time might...
...demonstrated, Brecht was too much an artist to be seduced by his own theories. The stage of the Loeb Drama Center was from more than an animated lecture platform. (The program calls it the Loeb Dramatic Drama Center, and I will allow that this production may be permitted that boast.) The theories provide the shape of the play and the style of the production, but what moved the audience to laughter, tears, and a tumultuous ovation is something far less easy to talk about than theories, something human...
...functional glass-and-concrete building in San Francisco, the Bank of America, the nation's biggest (1960 deposits: $9.7 billion) commercial bank this week showed off the most highly automated center any bank can boast. It will serve as the nerve center for the bank's automation system, which has taken ten years to put into operation. It will take over all the work connected with handling checks for the 87 Bank of America branches in the San Francisco area; it will tabulate and clear checks, keep track of the checking accounts and print the monthly statements...