Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Webfoots could boast a second team All-American of their own at quarterback, and Billy Steers was second only to Centre College's immortal Bo McMillin as America's top signal-caller. To offset Horween's kicking skill, Oregon had Skeet Manerud; and fullback Hollis Huntington, already a veteran of two Rose Bowl games, could more than match Church on brute drive...
Total Cinema? In spite of its financial problems, insists Joffrey Business Manager Ewing, "the dance world is by far the most creative of all the performing arts in America today." Ewing's boast is not just hyperbole. Last year there were at least 100 premieres of new dance works...
Cuba is really the only country to boast a campaign so successful. The rapidity of its success is particularly remarkable. (The other outstanding example of progress is the USSR, where advance was slower, but the problem was also of a very different magnitude.) The Cuban campaign began in January, 1961, with an appeal to secondary students to "help in the battle." Thirty-four thousand professional teachers trained and directed the student volunteers. Castro mobilized 268,420 of them for what UNESCO estimated was a fantastic student-teacher ratio of three...
Judge Burger had one final observation. Any judgment that has the effect of frustrating the House action "would inevitably bring about a direct confrontation with a co-equal branch. Conflicts between federal branches are not merely unseemly but often destructive of important values. The checks and balances we boast of can check and balance just so far. Each branch may occasionally make errors for which there may be no effective remedy," but that "is one of the prices we pay for this independence, this separateness, of each co-equal branch and for the desired supremacy of each within its sphere...
Siemens prides itself on being only in the electrical business. "But we cover its whole spectrum," says Presidium Member Dr. Gerd Tacke. His is no idle boast. As usual, Siemens promised its Argentine customers everything from a permanent school for technicians in Germany to aid in exploiting the Argentine's natural uranium...