Word: brag
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exercise of the bored rich and their spoiled sons. On the rare occasions when they are jailed, they are treated like gentlemen, eventually released with sentence delayed-but revivable if they create new difficulties for the regime. Under such a mild eye, almost everyone now feels brave enough to brag quietly that he really hates Franco ("but there's no other choice...
Almost unnoticed behind the ominous headlines last week, the varied slogans of the U.S. press continued to make one unimpeachable claim: nowhere else do front pages support so rich a top dressing of hyperbole. Rare is the U.S. paper that Forgoes the opportunity to nail a brag to its masthead. The Denver Post celebrates the CLIMATE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD. The Atlanta Journal COVERS DIXIE LIKE THE DEW. The Fairbanks News-Miner is AMERICA'S FARTHEST NORTH DAILY PAPER; the Miami News, THE BEST NEWSPAPER UNDER...
...Thoughts. As a first-term Senator, Jack Kennedy had a legislative record that was nothing to brag about. But his political appeal was such that in 1956, when Democratic Presidential Nominee Adlai Stevenson threw the vice presidential nomination up for grabs at the party's Chicago convention, Kennedy made a wildly disorganized eleventh-hour attempt for the prize. He lost to Estes Kefauver, but by so narrow a margin that it set the Kennedyites to thinking really Big Thoughts. Recalls Larry O'Brien (who had not even attended the convention): "After that convention, we began to realize that...
Speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., beefy (6 ft. 4 in., more than 250 lbs.) British Press Lord Cecil Harmsworth King, whose tabloid London Daily Mirror has the world's largest daily circulation though little else to brag about, offered a disdainful critique of U.S. newspapers: "A lot of little parish magazines . . . with acres of soggy verbiage, cubic miles of repetitious reports, incredibly bad headlines, nonexistent layouts and ludicrous handling of pictures...
When new elections were called, the widow agreed after long hesitation to become the candidate for Prime Minister. Opposing her was the United National Party's able, Cambridge-educated Barrister Dudley Shelton Senanayake, 49, who has been serving as caretaker Prime Minister since April. Senanayake could brag that his party had soundly run Ceylon's tea-rubber-coconut economy in their days of power (1948-56). Under the United National Party's administration, Ceylon had achieved a per-capita income double neighboring India...