Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are now 43 Citizens for Kennedy-Fulbright chapters in 22 states, including two in L.B.J.'s home state of Texas (Austin and San Antonio). We boast a membership of nearly 4,000 in 48 states plus the District of Columbia. This "draft movement" has only just begun. We expect to have an even larger impact in the future...
...Griffith hit on the break and after the bell, repeatedly rubbed the laces of his gloves in Nino's face, butted open a gash on Nino's nose-and managed one legitimate looping right that knocked him down for a five count. Benvenuti still made good his boast. Ignoring the blood that was streaming from his nose, he decked Griffith with a right uppercut in the second round. Counterpunching beautifully, making full use of his 3-in. advantage in reach, he kept Emile off balance with jabs, scored heavily with combinations and solid left hooks, all the while...
Cussing & Calamity Janes. Braniff International tried to have it both ways, one day running a full-page "weight watcher's guide to Dallas" listing its low, medium-and high-calorie flights, the next day taking a two-page newspa per ad to boast about its gourmet delicacies plus special treatment for "those stubborn few who don't like perfect martinis. We let you mix your own." On its Chicago-New York flight, United was gunning for the tired businessman, with a whole plane turned into a men-only compartment, where commuting executives are free to cuss, smoke cigars...
...only hitch is players. Although there are 500 college and club teams in the U.S., few Americans are of professional caliber. As a result, the National League has been forced to woo players and coaches away from foreign teams with salaries up to $35,000. The Los Angeles Toros boast 15 players from 13 countries. Which creates still another problem: language. On the theory that "Pass me the ball!" in Spanish just might be fighting words in Swahili, most National League teams have adopted English as their "official" language, and the Pittsburgh Phantoms have temporarily farmed out their players...
After miraculously surviving an attempted assassination by machine gun two years ago, Iran's Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlevi said gratefully: "Allah saved my country again." It was not an idle boast. Among modern monarchs, the Shah, 47, is a pace-setting social reformer without whom Iran would long ago have turned to chaos. The trouble is that the Shah tempts Allah quite a bit. He zooms through the streets of Teheran at high speeds in his Ferrari-while police see to it that the traffic lights go green along his route. He loves to fly jets, such as Lockheed...