Word: boast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would teach subversion or integration," cried fiery Ross Barnett, a white supremacist who happens to be Governor of Mississippi. Last week Barnett got a new blunderbuss to crush the forces of darkness: he took over the selection of all public-school textbooks in Mississippi. No other U.S. Governor can boast such power...
...strong like a tank and high like a horse," says Farmer Mario Herrera, who gets around the fields in a 1929 Dodge bought by his father. A 1928 Dodge taxi plies Santiago's red-light district in the wee hours, bearing witness to its driver's boast that even "drunks can't destroy...
Five years ago, the Texas Game and Fish Commission asked Birder Peterson to do something about the situation, put up $60,000 and now can boast the best bird guide in the Western Hemisphere (but for three years the book can be bought only from the Game and Fish Commission; money must be sent with the order to Austin, Texas-no C.O.D.s). The Texas guide demonstrates once again why the Peterson volumes are rarae aves in the book trade. When the first modest edition of the Eastern volume appeared in 1934, it sold an unexpected 7,000 copies...
...People rarely sit, or even stand still; they drop funny remarks hastening in one direction, not so funny ones fleeing in another. Musically the show travels rather light, once or twice with an empty suitcase. But Bye Bye Birdie successfully elevates freshness above slickness, playfulness above workmanship, and can boast a spanking enough breeze to explain why things now and then get blown about...
...gold filigree, every contour of which mirrors the onion-topped domes of the Kremlin's shrine of St. Basil. The Great Hall of St. George in the Grand Kremlin Palace is a massive-pillared, arching vault lit by gilded one-ton chandeliers. The last Czar, Nicholas II, could boast a gilded Easter egg celebrating three centuries (1613-1913) of Romanov rule. It was inlaid with miniature portraits of all the Romanov czars, and thanks to a Bolshevik firing squad, soon proved prophetically complete...