Word: boasting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's move, decided upon at Gettysburg weeks ago, was announced right on the heels of Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin's bombastic boast that the Soviet Union now leads the world in the peaceful use of atomic energy. But its real significance lay in reaffirming the humanitarian position taken by the U.S. as a matter of principle long before the Russians knew how to split an atom. Said the President: "This action demonstrates the confidence of the United States in the possibilities of developing nuclear power for civilian uses. It is an earnest of our faith that...
...Republican claim of curbing inflation and restoring economic stability to the country. "Which arrested inflation most-the Truman Administration, which reduced the national debt $12 billion in six years," he asked, "or the Eisenhower Administration, which has increased it $12 billion in three years? Should they boast about reducing expenditures when nondefense spending under Eisenhower is higher than at any time under Truman and the total cuts have been at the expense of national defense...
...twice a day," says a sympathetic boss in Dallas, "and I don't even drink coffee." Nevertheless, most companies who have polled their workers report that employees would rather have coffee in the office than fight jammed elevators and drugstores once or twice a day. Many executives even boast of serving better coffee than the cafe across the street. Says Vergil Finnell. a San Francisco coffee caterer: "A lot of companies now offer good, easy coffee as an inducement to the people they want to hire. It's become kind of a fringe benefit...
...best example of intemperance in public life that we have lately witnessed is the Secretary of State's recent magazine advertising of his peculiar talent for rattling the saber and brandishing the bomb ... If the Eisenhower Administration has to brag some more about something, I wish it could boast instead about resolute marches to the brink of peace instead of to the brink of war . . . And another thing-the sudden Soviet pressure for a treaty of friendship implying that any agreement on Germany depends on the U.S. accepting this treaty calls for most careful consideration. We must not appear...
...they were stuck with their own propaganda. They had to pretend to change the foreign policy whether the change was good for the country or not. [They] cut down our armed forces-in the face of growing Communist strength -so they could claim to reduce Government spending. When they boast about the reduction, they don't tell you that every last nickel of the net reduction came out of our national defense. Well...