Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such sanctified support, his mother never doubted that great things awaited Lyndon. But it was Grandpa Sam Ealy Johnson who came closest to pinpointing the boy's future. "I expect him," averred Sam, "to be United States Senator before he is 40." As usual for a Johnson, the boast was only slightly inflated...
...Detroit from 1915 to 1928. He saw the Ford Motor Co. as a devouring god Baal that dehumanized and depersonalized man, and Henry Ford I as a false prophet who "promised to solve all social problems but aggravated most of them." As Niebuhr saw it, Ford's boast of a $5-a-day wage was nothing but a sham, since most of his workers were employed only sporadically and had no insurance against unemployment, illness and old age. In the same pragmatic way, the slaughter of World War I made him turn with cold fury against the kind...
...Coach John Yoviesin continues to start sophomores Carter Lord and Joe Cook at ends as he did against Dartmouth, the offensive line will boast only two lettermen, guards Roger Noback and Dick Berdik, who has been shifted from the defensive platoon...
...rains have turned the infernal red dust into infernal red mud, in which a truck can sink to its door handles. On the perimeters, the marines and infantrymen live like soldiers on perimeters everywhere-primitively, with pup tents, ponchos and C rations. The airmen at Danang boast big airy tents with screened windows and solid floors, a new PX and mess hall. Most of the 173rd Airborne and Big Red One troops at Bien Hoa now have hot meals and floors under their tents...
...troops were soon besting the Viet Cong in fire fights from Chu Lai to An Khe. The 34,000 marines in Viet Nam boast a 5-1 kill ratio over the enemy, have spread their original beachhead until now they control 400 sq. mi. of territory. When a bad bit of intelligence unloaded the 101st Screaming Eagles from their helicopters right into a battalion of Viet Cong near An Khe, the Eagles fought hand-to-mortar until the field was theirs. Soon the increasing aggressiveness of American ground troops everywhere was adding yet another dimension of fear and uncertainty...