Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Corporation, the agency that took control of the city's anti-poverty program. When Addonizio warned the U.C.C. against "empire building," its president, Rutgers Law Dean C. Willard Heckel, vowed that the agency "would alter the power structure of the city." Many politicians fear that is no idle boast. In Los Angeles, it took the Watts riots to persuade Democratic Mayor Samuel Yorty to accept even seven representatives of "disadvantaged" areas on his 35-member poverty board...
Hammond will lead a 1966 squad that will boast 13 returning lettermen...
...Harvard booters boast a 7-1 record overall and are 4-1 in Ivy play. They completely outclassed Dartmouth and Princeton in their last two home games. And today they will be at full strength for the first time since October...
Five times as luminous as a full moon, Ikeya-Seki lived up to its advance billing as one of the brightest comets of the century. Japanese astronomers boast that they snapped the clearest daylight pictures ever taken of a comet. Because of its close brush with the sun, Ikeya-Seki heated to an intensity that was easily recorded in detail by spectrographs, which gave scientists their strongest evidence so far of comet ingredients. Preliminary readings have already detected sodium, ionized calcium, iron, nickel, copper and potassium. Last week James Westfall, a young Caltech scientist, reported that his infrared observations...
...owners are such as Elke Sommer, Herbert von Karajan, Prince Rainier, Ingemar Johansson, Juan Carlos of Spain and Krupp Heir Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach. Like Porsche owners everywhere, they flick their headlights in salute as they pass on the highway, even at 100 m.p.h. U.S. highways now boast 29,000 Porsches, and half of Porsche's production is sold in the U.S.; demand is so strong that U.S. buyers must now wait two to three months for delivery...