Word: boast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...object of these efforts is to wring out some foreign trade concessions that President Nixon can boast about when he sends to Congress next month the bill formally devaluing the dollar-which came under renewed selling pressure in Europe last week. That, however, is only an interim goal. The current negotiations promise to be the opening gun in a years-long campaign to expand American exports by rewriting many of the rules that govern -and now restrict-world trade...
...tradition in his privately expressed desire "to make a difference" in his time. Should all his ventures succeed, history will indeed record not only that he made a difference but that 1971 was a year of stupendous achievement. Even now, with matters only well begun, few modern Presidents can boast of having done so much in a single twelve-month span?perhaps Lyndon Johnson with his great flood of legislation in 1965, certainly Harry Truman with the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine in 1947 and Franklin Roosevelt in the New Deal heyday...
Final Hours. Perhaps that boast was on the mind of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat last week as he held a series of strategy meetings in Cairo with visiting Arab leaders and politicians of his own Arab Socialist Union. "The year of decision," which Sadat had called 1971, was fading into its final hours, and he still had not carried out the threatened military moves to recover captured Egyptian territory. More likely, though, Sadat was occupied with Egypt's frustrations in the unproductive diplomatic negotiations for peace. In the latest round, Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad traveled to the United Nations...
Outside the city, reporters had to go looking for the war, and for the first few days they found the countryside, more often than not, as peaceful as North Carolina during military maneuvers. "We'll give those buggers a good hammering" had been a favorite boast of Pakistani officers. But once the serious fighting began, only a few of the outnumbered and outgunned Pakistani units fought it out in pitched battles...
...color TV, it began laying out millions more to break into computers, an effort that it finally abandoned at a great loss this year when profitability seemed far off. Sarnoff's son Robert, 53, who succeeded him as chairman last year, will do well if he can boast, as his father did after a particularly rocky period at RCA, that "I never got butterflies...