Word: boasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diplomatic cocktail party, Foreign Minister Dmitry Shepilov held the closest thing yet to a Western-style press conference. Instead of the usual Kremlin evasiveness, even at such informal occasions, Shepilov talked frankly with correspondents, did his best to answer serious questions. ILx-Pravda Editor Shepilov, who likes to boast that "I'm a journalist myself," also had another change of heart. After recently bitterly criticizing the U.S. press (it ought to be muzzled), he was asked if he had any complaints this time. Smiled Shepilov: "No. None whatsoever...
...Chinese Communists like to show with statistics how well the younger generation is being brought up in the New China. They boast that some 5,000 state-run nurseries and more than 1,900 nursing rooms, caring for 192,000 children, have now been set up in industrial and mining enterprises "to avoid the phenomenon of mothers' being unable to join production because of their children." Result: nine out of ten women in Red China are now "suitably employed...
...Banker Felix Warburg. With a $500.000 budget, mostly contributed by large corporations, plus modest fees ($25 per day in labor cases, from one-tenth of 1% to 1.5% of the disputed amount in commercial cases), dedicated A.A.A.ers handle about 2,500 disputes a year, 80% of them labor cases, boast that never has an aggrieved party walked out of the hearing room...
...retirement last year, Billy hired a ghostwriter and turned out a book called Boss of Britain's Underworld. Jack produced a rival series of articles for the Sunday Chronicle, describing in glowing terms his own rise to power. The Jack Spot memoirs hit their high point with the boast that he had mustered an army of 1,000 hoods armed with Sten guns, hand grenades, British service revolvers and German Lugers, to maintain his own rule. So long as the rivalry was literary, the Yard did not seem to mind. But then Billy Hill, bored with the artistic life...
...estimated 7,000 new doctors just graduated from the nation's 75 accredited four-year medical colleges. As products of the nation's shiniest new med school, designed from the first to profit from the mistakes and experiences of others, the 36 young doctors from U.C.L.A. could boast of the most modern medical education possible...