Word: brag
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...already on the November ballot in 16 states. Yet a briar patch was growing in his own home state. His reputation is built not only on the sands of segregation but on a claim of bedrock honesty as well. "The books are always open," he liked to brag about his days as Alabama Governor. Now an angry Alabamian has opened the books in federal court...
...outfit is pure hippie Latin American bandido-black boots, silver-belted denims, Navajo vest, and a purple velours gaucho hat patted down over his colossal corona of frizzy hair. On the hat is a button that reads, "Let's Brag a Little." So he does: "What I don't like about being on the road, man, is that you only remember each town by the broads. Like the blonde broad with the mole, she's from Frisco -things like that...
...north is the land of Paul Bunyan, the giant lumberjack whose footprints remain as tiny wooded lakes. Wisconsinites brag that they have more lakes than Minnesota, which supposedly has ten thousand. The north is hunting and fishing country that has attracted such outdoorsmen as Pres. Eisenhower and Al Capone, and which each year draws thousands of tourists from the Chicago suburbs...
...college performance, and measures it badly." Gross and other critics deplore the pressure on students to score well on the tests. Many schools prep their students on the kind of vocabulary and mathematical skills tested by the exams; high school principals, as well as college publicists, tend to brag about high-average S.A.T. scores as badges of success...