Word: boastfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present, the committee can boast only 15 members, five or six of whom are "consistently energetic," and the dreams of national influence are fading fast. "Students feel that the policies involved are too complicated to be tackled by private citizens," said President David Hamilton '62, "and the initial wave of interest in getting negotiations started has subsided, leaving us to cross our fingers and hope a compromise will be worked...
...influx of an outstanding group of Freshmen, who boast a victory over Yale among their laurels, the Crimson should be greatly improved next year. Despite this, chances for a Yale victory next season are slim...
Broken Strike. At the Soviet's 21st Party Congress in Moscow last January, slim, supple Red Boss Aidit could boast the best vote-getting Communist Party outside the Iron Curtain, and he promised Nikita Khrushchev that Indonesian Reds would deliver 8,000,000 ballots if elections "were held tomorrow" (in the 1957 regional election the Reds became Indonesia's top party with 6,940,000 votes). All this had been done in a scant ten years, for Communist prestige in Indonesia was at zero after the Reds tried to pull a coup in 1948, which was easily crushed...
...with load factors of 95% southbound, 85% northbound, has already carried 35,000 passengers by jet since mid-December. American Airlines, with five 707s operating across the U.S. nonstop to Los Angeles, reported a 96.2% load factor v. the average 66%. The nine Lockheed Electra turboprops delivered so far boast average loads of nearly 80% on nights from New York to Chicago and Detroit. Together, the two jet-powered craft boosted American's February business to an alltime record of 364 million revenue passenger miles, some 8% better than last year at this time. Eastern already has 18 Electras...
...scandal and nepotism rock the Vatican. After a sly display of irreverence, Author Menen turns soberside to point an improbably tedious moral: "Scientists are, by and large, up to no good . . . We stand in danger of having our lives twisted, our souls and our bodies destroyed, by men who boast that they are above right and wrong...