Word: boast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...justify our exclusive possession of this continent," Laborite Immigration Minister Arthur Calwell revived the slogan, "Populate or Perish." He won support for a costly immigration program that has brought in an average of more than 100,000 "New Australians" a year. In the process, Australia deliberately modified its old boast of being "more purely...
...tough-minded egoist, "a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute." Firmly convinced that her own one absolute is reason, Author Rand has gone so far as to boast: "I have never had an emotion that I couldn't account for." Less fortunate people, she suggested last week at Yale, can blame Immanuel Kant. Just when faith was on the wane, and self-interest had a foot in the door, he "saved the morality of altruism" with his duty-setting...
SHOWMAN Billy Rose likes to describe himself as the "Sixth Avenue Medici." Last week he could prove that the statement was no idle boast. In one magnificent gesture, he had given $1,000,000 worth of sculpture to the Bezalel National Museum of Israel...
...passenger, in which one background noise was the squeak of shoes. Washington officials were sold, last week displayed Saarinen's design for the building, to be completed in the spring of 1961. The field itself will occupy 9,800 acres near Chantilly, Va. (23 miles west of Washington), boast two major runways each 2¼ miles long. Saarinen admits to not having solved another major headache for air travelers: the long wait for baggage. "After a careful survey," Saarinen says, "we decided we could do nothing special about...
Boswell for the Defence is, inevitably, drawn in darker shades than the earlier volumes, but is no less fascinating. The author, as usual, shows himself stark naked, and fully justifies his boast: "I have really a genius for particular history, for biography...