Word: boasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these days of "strong men," "people's democracies" and "international hypocrisy"-you characterize that democratic government as "graft-ridden." I will not claim that my administration was 100% free of graft. No administration-democratic or dictatorial-could ever make that sweeping claim, just as no nation could truthfully boast that it is free of crime. What a government can and should do is to combat graft or crime with all the vigor possible under the circumstances in which it holds office; and, if TIME should care to look up the actual record, you will have to agree that...
...England, whose Yankee pride and pocketbook have been hurt of late by the southward migration of the textile industry, could boast of checking its downward economic trend. While 21,000 textile jobs in the area disappeared during the year, more than that number opened up in such new fields as electronics and light metals.Typical of New England's Yankee ingenuity in creating new jobs was the feat performed by the little town of Harmony, Me. Its 700 harmonious citizens contributed $22,000 to pay one-third the cost of a new shoe factory which will employ 120 people...
...favor of permitting commercial TV. The Socialists are strongly opposed. But many a staunch Tory is also for control by BBC, on the principle that too much television in any form is bad for the people. A recent convert to BBC control is Tory Lord Salisbury, who used to boast that he had never seen a TV show and never intended...
...high-school basketball circuit, Cousy set himself a goal as a 15-year-old: to become an All-America. Practicing overtime and all through the summer, he made the varsity at Long Island's Andrew Jackson High School at 16. It is Cousy's quiet boast that "I've never missed a game since." The brag covers four years of varsity play at Holy Cross, where he won his All-America rating, and three years of play in the faster company of the pros. In all, it amounts to close to 500 consecutive games. Durable Cousy...
...year's commitments of troops, equipment and construction had been about 95% met. The NATO armies now boast about 50 land divisions considered "ready"-that is, on duty now or mobilizable within 30 days. If EDC were passed, NATO could then count on adding twelve West German divisions to the total...