Word: boastfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...medical volunteers to work in the camps. The scores of countries participating in this week's U.N. conference on Cambodia are expected to pledge considerably more assistance. Among them will be the U.S.S.R. Although the Soviets have done nothing to assist Western aid efforts, they are expected to boast of their food shipments to Cambodia, though it is unclear how much of this food is channeled to the occupying Vietnamese forces...
Navy, undefeated in a dual meet this year, has been voted the number one team in the Heps--all the Ivy schools plus the military academies--for the last three weeks. The Midshipmen boast much of the same team that finished second to Princeton and just ahead of Harvard in the Heps last year...
Harvard sailors think that they have the best team in New England and over the past month have proved that this is no idle boast. They have won the New England Women's Team Racing Championships, the Greater Boston Dinghy Championships, the Hoyt Trophy, the prestigious MacMillan Cup and still have several important races to sail before the season is over...
...anniversary address was hardly all boast and triumph. He made plain in his nationally televised speech that the ideals of the revolution had failed to become tangible reality, and he implicitly placed much of the blame on the late Great Helmsman. Pushing de-Maoification to its furthest limit to date, Ye made the electrifying charge that Mao's Cultural Revolution of 1966-69 had been an outright "calamity." Said he: "The most severe reversal of our socialist cause since the founding of the People's Republic," the Cultural Revolution "plunged our country into divisiveness and chaos abhorred...
There is little chance of a Chrysler-type financial Armageddon. Ford remains a globe-girdling, diversified corporation with 1978 earnings of $1.6 billion on revenues of $43 billion. Its glass, steel and aerospace operations boast record earnings, as does its international automotive business, which ranks second only to Volkswagen outside North America. And Caldwell is a cool, analytical manager who is credited with turning around international operations, which produce two-thirds of Ford's profits. Can he rebuild domestic sales? Cautions Caldwell: "This is a long-lead business. A lot will come two to three years from...