Word: boasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adolf Hitler called them the "Order of Good Blood," and gave them for a symbol a grinning death's-head. In ten dreadful years, they butchered millions, making good their master's boast that men should "grow sick at the sight of [their] black coats." At Niirnberg, before the court of world opinion, they were forever condemned for crimes against humanity. Yet last week the SS (full name: Schutzstaffel) marched again, jack boots ringing on the cobblestones of the garrison town of Verden in lower Saxony...
...cups (too much brandy) at Lincoln's second inaugural. ¶The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, a nine-volume key to the current Lincoln boom scheduled for publication next February, which will contain 99% of all known Lincoln material, sell for $115 (prepublication price: $95), and boast such items as an index to 200 Lincoln forgeries...
...Tigers also boast a slight edge in first downs, outranking the Crimson by 108 to 94 in that department. In the punting category, quarterback Dick Emory's average (for only two punts, however), gives the Tigers the advantage over the Crimson...
...East.' In honest stupefaction the people must ask: Can this man [Adlai Stevenson, who made the remark on Sept. 27 in Louisville] be serious? Can an Administration frankly confessing that it could not prevent the loss of China-the whole heart of Asia-have the audacity to boast nonetheless of having 'blocked' the Communists in Asia?" Eisenhower favors an effective Pacific defense pact. He advocates top priority in U.S. aid to the "newborn and reborn nations" of Africa, the Middle East and Asia...
...Wildcats boast an adept punter in freshman Bobby Renn, who, in last Saturday's game, averaged 44 yards on seven kicks, one of them a 78-yard quick-kick...