Word: boast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into beehive-style communes, nobody professed to be more appalled than Nikita Khrushchev. It wasn't the inhumanity he objected to; it was the dogma. Communes, Nikita told visiting U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey, were "oldfashioned and reactionary." But what really irked the Kremlin was Peking's implicit boast that the commune system would propel Red China into the Marxist never-never land of full Communism ahead even of Rus sia itself...
Underground Airport. For all its glitter, Idlewild will have plenty of competition before the airport boom abates. Many of the new airports boast functional rather than beautiful buildings, must first use their money for such expensive necessities as lengthening runways-at $1,000 a ft.-to meet the 10,500-ft. jet requirements. But some airports with money to spare are experimenting with concepts as dramatic in jet age design as Idlewild...
Singapore was a fortress of paper-endless reams of paper that issued from British information offices assuring the world that Singapore was invincible. Confident that a constant boast of strength would impress the Japanese, the British encouraged "a complacency more impenetrable than the Malayan jungle." So writes Author Attiwill, who was there as a British soldier when Singapore fell in 1942 and vowed one day to tell the whole story...
Some German campers travel in a style worthy of Europe's richest new rich, but most boast of how far they can go at the least expense. On the average, a camper's vacation only costs $40 for two weeks in the sun. One Frankfurt camper spent ten days in Italy. He brought along gas for his motor scooter, canned food, which he cooked over a portable stove with German canned heat, a tent, blankets, and other necessities for independent outdoor living. Cost of his trip: nothing. Said he: "The only thing I took from Italy was water...
...reign of pudgy Charles IV, King of Spain from 1788 to 1808, was as squalid as it was tragic, but it did boast one supreme ornament. The Painter to the King was Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes, who left behind on canvas a royal family album that has dazzled the world ever since. Each year thousands of visitors to the Prado in Madrid have come to know Goya's bumbling old King, his sharp-faced Queen, the sulky heir apparent, and a host of beribboned infantes and infantas, all portrayed with ruthless candor. But one member...