Word: boastfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today French and Vietnamese alike boast that the Viet Minh no longer have any chance of taking the deltaunless the Communist Chinese step in to help them. While the Chinese are known to be in close touch with Ho, the six months' rainy season that starts in May will make the roads in northern Viet Nam and southern China all but impassable to large-scale Chinese troop movements. Meanwhile, the Viet Minh were attacking on a 75-mile front north of Hanoi, deploying 30 to 40 battalions for daylight battle in open country for the first time...
...recent decades, the U.S. has taken more & more pride in wanting much from the rest of the world. It gives thanks it is not as other great powers were, exploiters, conquerors, In the case of the U.S., the boast is not altogether Nor is it altogether virtuous. The peculiar history the U.S. accounts for its lack of drive to dominate other It expanded by picking up (rather easily) almost empty which its borders. Its rise is a story of internal growth, which shows no sign of slackening-thus confounding the Euro economists, both Marxist and conservative, who are certain industrialized...
...boast, as no other house in the world, that it can assemble two complete, topflight Casts for almost any of its performances. No other house has interchangeable lyric tenors of the quality of Jussi Bjoerling and Richard Tucker: baritones such as Leonard Warren and Robert Merrill; bassos such as Jerome Hines and Cesare Siepi; and dramatic sopranos such as Helen Traubel and Kirsten Flagstad, not to mention the good looks and comic flair of a Patrice Munsel...
Bless You All (music & lyrics by Harold Rome; sketches by Arnold Auerbach; produced by Herman Levin and Oliver Smith) is sometimes pleasant but never for long. Virtually everyone connected with it has more to boast of than the show itself. It's brightly colored but badly tended; the whole thing needs weeding, even the better things need watering. It looks about as a Broadway revue should look-perhaps in New Haven-three weeks before it opens on Broadway...
William Blake, 16 years the junior of Fuseli, Mortimer and Barry, drew, maintains Grigson, as badly as Barry-and "Little-Lambishly" besides. Blake once showed a drawing to Fuseli with the boast that the Virgin Mary herself had appeared to him and said it was very fine. Defiantly Blake added: "What can you say to that?" "Say?" exclaimed Fuseli. "Why, nothing-only that her ladyship has not immaculate taste...