Word: boasting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Affairs (1944-45), Under Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (1953-54), sparkplug of the Rockefeller Report, and is now adviser on reorganization to Defense Secretary Neil McElroy. Rockefeller is no professional politician, but he starts with one advantage that few politicians (except Millionaire Harriman) can boast: a name that is already a household word...
...grapevines. Mexican and U.S. farmers, industrialists and businessmen are laying out factories, hotels, lawns, streets and truck gardens with assembly-line speed. The citizens of Baja California (estimated pop. 550,000) proudly argue that the new state's standard of living is Mexico's best, a boast bolstered by the fact that its minimum legal wage is the country's highest...
...African coast and across the Atlantic, for his feat earned an 18-month jail sentence. Tracing Charles Darwin's 19th century world voyage in the Beagle, Orsborne in 1951 sailed the ketch Argosy from England, ended his trip abruptly in Trinidad when arrested for arms smuggling. His boast: "I did things no other man has done and stayed alive...
...towering Medieval Sculpture Hall a room made to order for the 60,000-lb. screen, began negotiating to buy it. Earlier this year the Hearst Foundation donated the screen to the museum. Last week, with Valladolid's masterpiece installed in its new setting (see cut), the Met could boast a treasure unequaled outside Spain...
Members of Straus South, who boast that they have the "worst touch football team on campus," will meet the last-place Eli freshman touch squad in a special contest tomorrow at New Haven...