Word: boast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...companies (Anaconda, Kennecott and Cerro Corp.) own the bulk of the remaining foreign interest in Chile's copper mines. Allende has also expropriated 350 latifundios (large estates), with a total of 2,593,000 acres. Although very few landless families have been relocated thus far, he likes to boast that "in five months we have done one-third of what the previous government did in six years...
...year. He left that cozy career to accept an appointment from Democratic Governor Herbert H. Lehman as a special prosecutor to attack racketeers. He badgered rackets victims into testifying against their tormentors by threatening them with income tax and contempt of court charges, and was able to boast that he "never lost a witness" to underworld retribution. He rarely lost a case, either: at one point he ran up 72 convictions in 73 trials...
...economy, which according to Khrushchev's boast was to have surpassed the U.S. economy last year, may stand half a trillion dollars behind America's G.N.P. by the end of 1971. More important, the Soviet consumer wants more and better goods, and he is not getting them...
...black fighters such as Vesey, L'Ouverture, and Turner and did not wish to promote combativeness of any form among their slaves. How could they make their other slaves stand in fear if there were a black man amongst them who could equal John L. Sullivan's famous boast, "My name is John L. Sullivan and I can whip any sonofabitch alive...
...even more of a white man's game, it remained the poor man's game, it remained the poor man's game. The fighting Irish applied the same mixture of skill, showmanship, and exclusion to boxing that they did to the polities of the same period. (Sullivan, despie his boast, refused to meet Peter Jackson, the greatest of the heavyweight "Colored Boxing Champions of America.") Their boxers, like their priests and politicians, became ethnic standard-bearers and played the role to the hilt. When John L. walked the streets of Southie wearing his diamondstudded belt and raved that there were...