Word: boast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Morice Line, but rebel breakthrough attempts are costly and seldom successful. Inside Algeria, rebel units that in early 1958 were big enough to fight pitched battles with crack French outfits are now reduced to 30 or 40 men apiece, and religiously flee all contact with French troops. The French boast that there are now nearly 50% more Moslems (160,000) fighting for France than for the F.L.N. rebel forces...
...trucks. "Blood for merchandise, merchan dise for blood," he told a Jewish leader. "You can make your choice from Hungary, Poland, Austria, from Auschwitz or Theresienstadt, from wherever you like. Potent males? Fertile women? Old people? Children?" At the Nuremberg trials, a witness reported Eichmann's defiant boast: "I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have 5,000,000 human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction...
...world's political leaders could boast of a more servile press than the United Arab Republic's President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Almost from the beginning of his regime, Egypt's editors have followed Nasser's xenophobic line. But dictators being what they are, not one of them can feel secure without owning the press completely. Last week in Cairo, Nasser made the inevitable move...
Even in his summit-eve private calls on Charles de Gaulle and Harold Macmillan (TIME, May 23), Nikita brought Malinovsky along to buttress the boast that Russia is militarily stronger than the U.S. When Khrushchev impulsively cantered out of Paris to Pleurs, 84 miles southeast, he was visiting the village where Malinovsky had been billeted with Russian troops serving on the western front during World War I. When Malinovsky pointed out the hayloft in which he had slept, Khrushchev swiftly moved in to extract every possible kernel of corn. "Cows below and a future marshal above," he said. "Well, cows...
...plants belch smoke against the Prussian-blue sky; workmen scramble over scaffolding of a $900,000 British-American cigarette factory, the newest plant in the city. With a labor force of nearly a million and only 36,000 unemployed (matching the alltime low of last September), West Berlin can boast that it is Germany's biggest industrial city...