Word: bragging
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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...
Almost as fantastic as the murders themselves was the disclosure that at least 30 teenagers, all friends of Schmid's, had apparently heard him brag about the crimes-and said nothing. Confided one 16-year-old coed at Tucson's Palo Verde high school: "A lot of people knew, but it was already too late. Telling would just have made it tough on everyone...
...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...
...Bobby Clark and junior goali Bill Fitzsimmons, but last year's performances won little more than letters for this starless group. Right wingers Pete Waldlinger and Dennis McCullough, both juniors, led the team in goals, but their totals of nine apiece is more a mark to build upon than brag about...