Word: boastfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every pressroom has him-the unobtrusive character who is not a professional newsman but who is always around, his duties uncertain, his status undetermined, tolerated and even liked by the pros. But few can boast a more memorable character than Vo Song Thiet, a tiny, bespectacled Vietnamese who bicycled into Geneva in 1954 and has been a fixture of the Palais des Nations' pressroom ever since...
Iraq. The new revolutionary regime seems solidly in the saddle but not yet shaken down. Last week the mask of sweet reasonableness toward the West appeared to slip a bit. Baghdad censors permitted the newspaper Al-Yakdha to boast: "We have no reason not to consider ourselves part of the United Arab Republic." The Baghdad radio announced that 111 prisoners (39 of them army officers) would shortly be tried by military courts for past crimes against the state. At the U.N., the new Iraqi delegate, Hashim Jawad, took his line from Egypt's shrewd Delegate Omar Loutfi by calling...
Balloon Breaker. To last through this kind of performance five nights a week takes a talent spawned by radio, toughened by Hollywood and burnished by the demands of an unforgiving clutch of television cameras. No comedian in the U.S. can boast a more abundant supply of the necessary skills than Jack Paar. He has been practicing them almost all his life...
Before the week was out the Menderes government itself recognized the new Iraqi regime. But hard-driving Premier Menderes could boast that his militantly pro-Western foreign policy (which Inonu also favors) had at least 359 million concrete advantages. Meeting in Paris, the 17-member Organization for European Economic Cooperation agreed to extend Turkey $100 million in credit ($50 million of it from West Germany), thereby triggered promises of at least another $234 million from the U.S. and $25 million from the International Monetary Fund...
...trapped aboard a train, how he eluded the phony appointments set up to trap him. With a certain masculine embarrassment, he reluctantly confirms French reports that he has on occasion disguised himself as a veiled Moslem woman, explains defensively: "I would do anything for the revolution." His proudest boast is of the manner in which he foiled a daring scheme originated by Jacques Soustelle, then Governor General of Algeria...