Word: brag
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...William Randolph Hearst Jr., 54, titular heir to his father's empire, the new deal in San Francisco seemed something of a coup, and he could not resist a brag: after all, said Hearst, "we got a whole newspaper for practically nothing." It was certainly a cut-rate way to restore a full link to Hearst's dwindling newspaper chain-now down to twelve, including San Francisco, from a highwater mark of 26. But beyond that, the deal had other significance...
...Brag. Last week Texas Attorney General Will Wilson filed the state's first suit against one alleged pirate. At the same time, three big operators-Humble, Continental and Pan American Petroleum -entered suits totaling $1,700,000 against eight independents who, the companies charged, had stolen their oil. The Railroad Commission predicted that it might eventually find as many as 300 slanted wells pumping out $30 million worth of purloined oil a year. Said Attorney General Wilson: "This will turn out to be one of the biggest thefts in Texas history." In the land of Billie Sol Estes, that...
...that jazz") to modern psychological drama ("Maybe the unnatural things in life are the only safe ones to write about these days"), the Harvards gave Actress Shelley Winters, 39, a standing ovation. Shelley's reaction: "One of the proudest achievements of my life. I'll brag about...
...woman who never finished high school but became one of America's great actresses told the audience that her lecture was "one of the proud achievements of my life. I will brag about...
...Britain's music-hall brag, aimed at Russia in 1878, added "jingoism'' to the English language and helped persuade the Czar to end his war against Turkey...