Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army & Navy personnel officers frequently boast about how much their enlisted men shell out for warbonds. Last week an admiral (who declined to be named) threw some light on the services' sales methods. Said he: "There would be less financial distress among wives and families of enlisted men if the Bureaus of Supply & Accounts, and Personnel used a little more common sense about war bond drives among these lads...
...That's why they call me 'Hollywood.' I'm the best dressed Chief in Harvard." Nor is this an idle boast: "Hollywood" has been voted the best-dressed hall player in every league in which he has played...
...found the majority are sober, quiet, homely men, with wives, children and mothers they adore, youngsters with sweethearts back home to whom they're longing to return, men who to our astonishment don't boast or chew gum, don't get fresh and who genuinely appreciate a friendly smile, a chat, a cup of tea, are ridiculously generous...
...warning that the Allied command also feared more trouble to come, from the larger, longer-ranged V-2 of which the Nazis boast. It was no secret that the bombers were trying to nip off V-2 as well as stop Vi. The targets were significant: the experimental stations at Peenemünde and Zinnowitz on the wooded Baltic coast (R.A.F. attacks there a year ago were officially credited with having delayed V-1 by six months); robot-parts plants at Friedrichshafen and Memmingen in southwest Germany; unnamed factories turning out special fuels for pilotless bombs; storage points in France...
...both got "Unsat's" in our first report. That frightened the life out of us. So we went to work, as Gil Cross puts it, "to got this Harvard system down cold." By dint of hard work, clean living, and being nice to the markers, we can now boast that we have lifted our marks up to a high Low Pass...