Word: brag
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Faced by this kind of power, Harvard will rely on its depth--a quantity the Crimson has had more to brag about in years past. Harvard performers will have to be bunched around the West Poin superstars for McCurday and company to win. Lynch and Pardee will have to score heavily, but the second-liners are the key men for Harvard...
...Crimson's only consolation came in preventing Bruin starter Art Di-slar-from registering his fifth win of the as he was knocked from the box five-run sixth inning. That achievement wasn't much to brag about, however, as DiMartino did most of the damage himself, walking five of the seven batters he faced that inning...
Like most fishermen, the Japanese crewmen aboard the commercial boat Yoku Maru could not resist a bit of a brag. When the 100-ft. vessel put into Jamaica's Montego Bay last fall, the skipper invited some local sport fishermen aboard. Modestly the Japanese apologized that a mother ship had carted away most of their catch. Then they threw open their lockers. There, stacked like cordwood, were the carcasses of thousands upon thousands of game fish: yellowfin tuna, wahoo, sailfish and blue marlin...
...that they have climbed high, the newly rich are sensitive about the "millionaire" title and seldom brag about it. But they respect the power of money, like what it can buy. Great wealth seems to produce a security and mobility that usually enables the rich to grow richer. By putting $1,000,000 into municipal bonds, an investor can get an annual income of $35,000 tax free. Most of today's newly rich entrepreneurs use their money in a more venturesome way, but few of them live on as grand a scale as the ostentatious millionaires...
...Cleveland demolished favored (by seven points) Baltimore, 27-0. Last week the Browns took a long step toward their second straight playoff berth, as Jimmy presided over a 34-21 defeat of the third-place New York Giants. Cleveland's defense was not anything to brag about-it did not have to be. Not the way Butcher Brown was slicing up New York...