Word: brags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tune, Hurrah for Our National Game (1896), sums up the feeling of America's early baseball fans: The Gamester may boast of the pleasures of play, The Billiardist brag of his cue, The Horse jocky gabble of next racing...
...President stood by shaking hand after hand until aides whisked him off to the presidential yacht in Manila Harbor for a breath of air. Police estimated that 50,000 people had come to Malacanan Palace during the two days. Said one newsman: "The Communist leader Taruc used to brag that if the people would follow him, he would bring them to Malacanan. It looks as though Magsaysay has done it first...
...year-old: to become an All-America. Practicing overtime and all through the summer, he made the varsity at Long Island's Andrew Jackson High School at 16. It is Cousy's quiet boast that "I've never missed a game since." The brag covers four years of varsity play at Holy Cross, where he won his All-America rating, and three years of play in the faster company of the pros. In all, it amounts to close to 500 consecutive games. Durable Cousy, now 25, figures that a careful training regimen, e.g., no smoking, no drinking...
...said: "Poor Mexico: so far from God, so near the U.S." Yet it is Mexico, in part because it is so closely subject to U.S. influence, that has pioneered the way to mature independence and independent nationality in Latin America. Proud of its mestizo origins, without need either to brag or apologize for them, the country is visibly experiencing some of the creative results of having found itself. Ruiz Cortines, with the backing of the rising middle class, has already changed the republic's standards of public morality. Last week, after his frank survey of Mexico's unsolved...
Under General Manager John Revelstoke Rathom, a firm believer in the old newspaper saying, "Raise hell and sell papers," the papers were sensational, slapdash crusaders. Even before the U.S. got into World War I, Rathom was convinced that German diplomats were spies. He liked to brag that he planted secretaries in the offices of high German diplomats to intercept secret correspondence, and used Secret Service men as reporters. Over and over, other dailies around the U.S. carried Page One stories of German intrigue that began, "Tomorrow the Providence Journal will say ..." But Rathom's enterprise got him in trouble...