Word: boasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...federal grand jury indicted Major General Bennett E. Meyers for perjury and for suborning Bleriot H. Lamarre (who was also indicted) to give false testimony before the Senate War Investigating Committee (TIME, Dec. 1). Ferreting out crime was not the committee's job, but it could now boast of having brought two major war-purchasing scandals to action in criminal courts. Its other case-that of ex-Congressman Andrew May and the Garsson brothers-had resulted in a conviction. The Government's chief crime-detection and prosecuting agency-the Department of Justice-had not done half as well...
Colorado College, known familiarly as the Bengals, is the only college in the Rockies to boast a hockey team, and although its rink competition is only nine years old, the mountaineers modestly call their schedule "one of the roughest in the united States." Frankly looking to the north for material, Colorado has a team roster of 17 that lists 12 Canadians, but their 1945-46 team won-and-lost record (against teams largely from Canada) shows a lean three victories, all against the same team, as opposed to eight losses...
Record companies decided that it was smarter not to boast about their backlogs. Said one record man: "We don't want the public to get too complacent about this thing." They wanted public pressure to build against Petrillo. Actually, he hadn't asked for a thing yet. Most of them, to stay in business, would have willingly continued to pay Petrillo's AFM $2,000,000 a year in record royalties-but the Taft-Hartley Act outlaws royalties paid to a union. Petrillo is leaving it up to the record companies to find some other...
...Moscow's Bolshoi Theater beamed at each other in open, reassured relief. Their smiles said: "Ah, now we've got it too." But Molotov's words, obviously intended for home consumption, seemed to strike some U.S. editors all of a heap. They splashed Molotov's boast with big black headlines usually reserved for major catastrophes...
Biggest thing of its kind in the history of advanced learning the project will boast a paid staff of twelve specialists working under Director Stephen when it ultimately becomes established. Shaping the broad policies of the entire program is the general advisory committee, chaired by the President, including representatives of faculty, alumni, trustees, administration, and students to the tune of a 24-man total...