Word: brags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these objectives. "For one thing," he said, "they made their gimmicks too obvious. They could not keep secrets. It was obvious that all the wooden buildings of Moscow had just been given fresh paint jobs. And everywhere the youth roamed in the city, the Russians were eager to brag about it. They were proud that their town was spic-and-span for the first time in 20 years...
...know policemen who drank on duty, loafed on duty . . . I saw how saloonkeepers get parking tickets fixed . . . I heard my fellow policemen boast openly of freeloading on liquor and food -'living on the badge' they called it . . . Time and again I heard the smart-alec patrolman brag about his 'take,' repeating his motto: 'Never take a cigar that ain't wrapped in green...
...preparing the ground for a more modest view of the Russian commitment. Defense Minister El Azm, the official spokesman emphasized, had gone to Moscow very much on his own. Final agreement on Soviet aid to Syria, he added, has not been reached. Moscow left it up to Damascus to brag of how much the aid would be and was careful not to commit itself irrevocably...
There was even good dialogue to go with the pictures. In New York, Call Girl Nella ("Don't Call Me Madam") Bogart went on to brag about how the buyers she entertained for a General Electric wholesaler responded by ordering "carloads" of appliances (TIME, March 4). In Washington, Seattle Madam Ann Thompson told senators (see below) that even with support from the Teamsters' Union (membership: 1,400,000), a bawdyhouse chain would not pay in Portland...
...state commissioner of agriculture in the 1926 election, swept out a corrupt incumbent. When he could spare time, Herman helped by tacking up posters and distributing handbills. But the boy was busy with his own politicking for vice president of his ninth-grade class. He also won, likes to brag: "I've never lost an election since then...