Word: boast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loading took the better part of two days as the longshoremen, who boast they can load 100 tons an hour, secured one 64-ton crate every 20 minutes. This week, weather and the courts permitting, Le Baron will be towed to a point 238 miles off the Florida coast and scuttled in 16,000 feet of water...
...bail out floundering brokerages ?and back up its boast that, since the 1930s, "no customer has lost money through the failure of a member firm" ?the New York Stock Exchange has raised a rescue fund by assessing its members. When a brokerage fails, the exchange draws on the fund to pay off the creditors, mostly bankers. Brokerages commonly use customers' margin stock as collateral to support bank loans. The danger to investors is that, if a firm fails and the exchange's trust fund runs out of money, banks will hold on to the stock of the margin...
...wrap-around contour shape and a hydraulic system that automatically raises the seat and gingerly lowers the back for massage or hot towel treatments; while the occupant's hair is being clipped, an electrical system in the chair gently massages his back and calves. Takara's salesmen boast that their chair is fit for a king. Two users of the chairs are Japan's Emperor Hirohito, who had one installed in his Tokyo palace, and King Bhumibol of Thailand...
...knapsacks to improved, longer-range SA-2 missiles, similar to the ones emplaced in Egypt. Cuba now has 24 SA-2 sites, each with six missiles. In addition, Moscow has upgraded Fidel Castro's air force by supplying a 25-plane squadron of F model MIG-21s, which boast greater speed, longer range and a bigger payload capacity than the D models previously supplied to Cuba...
...ending is both an apology and a boast. Barnard seems to have been genuinely sad to lose his patient but also delighted to face the world. The worry about Dr. Barnard since then has been just that: Is he more concerned with his celebrity than with his arcane art? After facing the nation, he has dined with Gina Lollobrigida, chatted with Sophia Loren and Pope Paul. Across a thousand gossip columns he flashed a smile so wide that it looked as if he were advertising newly capped teeth. Then he was divorced by his wife back in Cape Town...