Word: brags
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STRUCK-NOT STRUCK OUT." boasted the New York Daily News in a Page One headline. But there was little enough to brag about. Despite a walkout of 1,123 Newspaper Guild members, the News struggled into print with one skimpy 16-page issue-run off on Hearst's Journal-American presses. Then the News suspended publication, the first and so far the only strike-bound Manhattan daily in what had originally looked like a management-labor showdown...
Although such forthrightness helped reduce race trouble in northeast North Carolina-it remains remarkably free of it to this day-it only heightened the Independent's unpopularity. In a backhanded compliment, the State Port Pilot over in Brunswick County raised this brag to its masthead: "Most Cussed Newspaper in North Carolina, Outside of Elizabeth City" The Independent ultimately commanded a paid audience of 6,000 spread over 30 states, but it went virtually adless for years at a stretch, fought a losing lifelong battle against financial failure. In 1937, after Editor Saunders tried unsuccessfully to convert the Independent...
...five new clinics, build a new 150-bed hospital and medical center in Santa Clara, and make additions to several present hospitals. "And still," sighs Dr. Garfield, "in some areas we can't accept new members because our facilities are limited." Adds Dr. Cutting: "We don't brag about the quality of care we give, but you can judge it from the fact that now when we go out to recruit doctors in the East, we get the cream of the crop...
Curses for Friends. Last week a touch of mass schizophrenia rubbed off on West Berliners. Normally they are a cynical, cocksure breed who thumb their noses at trouble. "Mir kann keener," they brag in the local dialect. "No one can push me around." In 17 years as a cockpit of the cold war, West Berlin has usually reacted more coolly to its recurring alarums than Washington or Whitehall. Even the Wall seemed barely to have dented the city's composure...
...overwrought roles, Bette earned two Oscars, $3,000,000. and a reputation as the first U.S.-born actress to make the movie moguls respect talent and independence in a star. In an age of vamps, she became the Compleat Vixen. But in this autobiography, Bette can (and does) brag: "I brought more people into theatres than all the sexpots put together...