Word: boasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Texan who said he was "looking over a few farms to pick up a lease or two." When he learned that Miller was with TIME, he said: "You fellows wrote me up once." The Texan, it turned out, was Dallas Insuranceman Robert Baxter, who had made this exultant boast in mid-1948: "This is a great world, and the U.S. is the greatest country in the world-and Texas is the greatest state in the U.S. and Dallas is the greatest city in Texas and the Rio Grande [National Life Insurance Co.] is the greatest insurance company in Dallas." That...
...celebrated its 177th anniversary last week (with stateside balls and pageants, with ceremonial "cake cuttings" in Marine messes everywhere), the corps could boast a growing weight of material advantages as well as these inner fires of elan. In the years after World War II, it had parried the persistent attempts of Army brass (including Army Chief of Staff Dwight D. Eisenhower) to whittle the Marines down to units of regimental size. It had hotly argued with critics who maintained that the A-bomb put its amphibious specialty out of business. And finally, amid the Korean emergency...
...bullfighters." This remark, tossed off in a Mexico City café, infuriated a young poster artist with flaming red hair and a temper to match. He flared back: "Americans have more guts in their little fingers than the rest of the world put together!" To make good his boast, Brooklyn-born Sidney Franklin had to learn enough about bullfight technique to get through a face-saving appearance with yearling bulls at a rancho in the country. That was back in 1922, and with time off for wars, revolutions and surgical operations, Franklin, the only American ever to become a topflight...
John Clarke Whitaker, 61, likes to boast that he joined R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. at the same time as another recruit: "Old Joe," the circus camel for whom Founder Reynolds named his cigarettes. Just out of the University of North Carolina, Whitaker started as a cigarette-machine inspector in 1913, the year Camels were put on the market. He worked up through manufacturing and personnel departments to a vice-presidency in 1937. Even when he became president in 1948, he never forgot that he started out in overalls, and he kept his door wide open so that...
...national victory. As for the "rebuke from voters," we suspect the "Times of hopeful fantasy. Perhaps McCarthy and Jenner did not receive the votes gloomy liberals predicted; what is of importance is that McCarthy won substantially, and Jenner defeated the most popular Democrat the State of Iowa can boast...