Word: brags
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Realistic measures of defense called for elimination of telecommunications with the Axis countries, closer passport inspection, control of Axis-owned businesses (on which Argentina and Chile submitted a reservation); and stricter surveillance of local Nazi groups, which openly brag of loyalty to the Fatherland even though a German colonist "wears a sombrero and spurs as wide as wagon wheels...
...week's end the Blues had plenty to brag about. On the first day of the maneuver they had knocked out 200 tanks, had done nearly as well every day thereafter. (Under maneuver rules, tanks destroyed on any day came to life next morning...
...present defenses are nothing to brag about. This condition does not worry Army people on the spot as much as might be expected. They know that the vulnerable Canal and the narrow Isthmus of Panama have inherent defense limitations which no amount of badly needed antiaircraft equipment or planes can wholly overcome. The only sure defense of the Canal is at a distance: by ship, by plane, by economic, political and diplomatic alliance with the countries of nearby Latin America and by occupation or neutralization of the bases from which an enemy might attack. The U.S. now lacks those outward...
Best-educated and most versatile branch of the Army is the Corps of Engineers. Officered by scholastic top-rankers from West Point and by graduates of such crack schools as M.I.T., Purdue and Caltech, the Engineers like to brag that they can do anything. In peacetime they build dams and -levees for power and flood control, think nothing of odd jobs like filling top-flight posts in WPA, the Civil Aeronautics Administration. In wartime they do a thousand jobs behind the lines, pave the way for infantry and tanks up front, often use shooting irons as well as shovels. Rednecked...
...times like these it is immature-and incidentally untrue-for anybody to brag that an unprepared America, singlehanded, and with one hand tied behind its back, can hold off the whole world...