Word: bragging
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This pack-journalism nonsense--watching what the other guy does before deciding whether to print news you have--permeated the sub salvage story as well. When Colby visited one news organization, he would always brag about the others that he had "locked up"--in other words, that he had convinced not to publish the story. As a result, newspapers and networks watched each other with special care, anxious for a sign that the story was about to break. There was no concern for getting the news out; the concern was with not getting scooped by the opposition. When Anderson broke...
...city hall. Soon World Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali, 33, and the mayor were in training. "The champ may be strong, but he isn't all there/ If he thinks he can beat this dy-no-mite mayor," taunted Jackson. Riposted Ali, "He don't want to brag and he thinks he's so hip/ If he keeps talking trash, I'll pop him in the lip." Last week, the poetaster-pugilists stepped into the ring at Atlanta's Southeastern Fair Grounds to celebrate Black Atlanta Week. Just the sight of Jackson in gargantuan batik swimming...
...brag about it at his press conference, as Nixon often did, but he is a lawyer and should be familiar with burden-of-proof theory. He should know that with a nearly all-white faculty, it is not enough to say that the Law School wants more minority professors and teaching fellows. It's time to prove...
...helpful hints on how to lick high prices. Ford requested - and got - prime-time tri-network coverage of his speech to the Future Farmers of America in Kansas City, Mo. It was a rather inflated forum, given the caliber of the message. "Bring budgeting back in style," he said. "Brag about the fact that you are a bargain hunter . . . save as much as you can and watch your mon ey grow...
...bring more misery, degradation, and even death to loved ones than wars, disease and boozeless crime all put together, but loyalty will remain steadfast and true. Those who are dedicated to liquor will worship it, brag about it, shield it from criticism like a doting mother protecting a spoiled and criminal son, even when statistics show John Barleycorn to be probably our most expensive national "luxury...