Word: boasting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Malpasset Dam. A graceful, sweeping arc of concrete 738 ft. long and 197 ft. high, it backed the Reyran River into a lake six miles long and two miles wide. Only 22½ ft. thick at its base and 5 ft. at the top, the Malpasset was, French technicians boasted on its completion, the world's thinnest major dam. It was to prove an unhappy boast...
...football, throws touchdown passes from the shelter of the league's finest offensive tackle, mammoth (6 ft. 3 in., 275 Ibs.) Jim Parker, 25. If a man does get by him, Parker contritely reassures Unitas in the huddle: "Johnny, it won't happen again." The Colts also boast End Raymond Berry, who is slow and small (6 ft. 2 in., 190 Ibs.) as pro ends go, so near-sighted he wears contact lenses during a game, but has proved so twinkle-toed a faker that he has caught a league-leading 48 passes in eight games...
...after The Ugly American appeared, the United States still has an ambassador in Paris who speaks German, no French, and an ambassador in Bonn who speaks French, no German. In addition, American embassies throughout the world are dotted with the rankest collection of amateurs that any diplomatic corps can boast...
From New Haven comes coach Jordan Olivar's boast that he has never sent a Yale team into a game in better shape. After five straight wins and a trouncing over Princeton, his team, an underdog two months ago, is now favored by most observers to beat the Crimson...
...nation rushed to do his bidding. From the Cabinet came a flurry of decrees setting up the military courts, suspending habeas corpus, ending the right of prisoners to appeal on grounds of unconstitutionality. The Cabinet slapped a 25% export tax on minerals, living up to Castro's boast at the rally that his mining law would "hurt the vested interests," e.g., Freeport Sulphur's Moa Bay nickel and cobalt mines. Mining companies, still studying the law, said that it was "pretty rough" and might wipe out profits completely. Three days later, Castro seized oil-company records of land...