Word: brags
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chiefs brag that their offensive line is the biggest in either league, averages 253 lbs. from end to end. Kansas City has three of the A.F.L.'s ten top rushers: Halfback Garrett (566 yds.) is No. 5, Halfback Bert Coan (476 yds.) is No. 6, and Fullback Curtis McClinton (408 yds.) is No. 7. Quarterback Len Dawson, a natural rollout passer who could not make it with the N.F.L.'s Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns, has come into his own in Coach Hank Stram's "movable pocket" passing offense; he has hit on 57% of his passes...
...Wednesday evenings, ten or twelve "cavers" (most of them avoid the term "spelunkers"), members of the Boston Grotto, the local caving club, meet in the Harvard Outing Club's quarters to brag about the caves they saw last weekend or to plan trips for the next. A few times a year they run an "easy" trip, like...
...classic brag designed to show that he alone dictated Soviet foreign policy, Nikita Khrushchev once declared: "When I tell Gromyko to take off his pants and sit on a cake of ice, he does it." Last week, after sitting on the ice cake through nearly three years of steadily worsening U.S. -Soviet relations, it looked as if Khrushchev's successors may have at last told Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to get off and hitch up. With the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. already moving toward the conclusion of a New York-to-Moscow air pact and an outer-space treaty...
Though previously little known outside his southern Oregon district, Duncan, a former seaman who still wads his cheeks with snuff and misses no chance to brag about his Scottish ancestry, received nationwide publicity in his primary battle against antiwar Candidate Howard Morgan (TIME, June 3), whom he trounced by an almost 2-to-l margin. Since then, shuttling weekly between House and home, Duncan has become, in his words, "practically a permament resident of United Air Lines...
...begins at Fairbanks, Alaska, where the 707s refuel. Waiting at the runway is an Eskimo with a Gibson refrigerator. The idea is that the not-so-dry Gibsons can snap pictures, brag back home that they sold an icebox to an Eskimo. At Tokyo, a Hong Kong tailor comes aboard to measure for suits and shirts, and between organized activities visitors get an opportunity to spend their own "fun money." "My wife bought herself ten glass-beaded sweaters," complained a Nevada dealer. "I'll have to sell glass-beaded refrigerators when we get home to get even...