Word: bragging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nonetheless, neither Arena, Dr. Donald Mills, the associate medical examiner, nor Arena's superiors, Prosecutor Steele and District Attorney Edmund Dinis, can brag about their handling of what is probably the most publicized case they will ever be associated with. In keeping with Arena's sketchy investigation, Mills, who pronounced Mary Jo dead, omitted an autopsy. Mills examined the body, but an autopsy would have shown how much Mary Jo had been drinking. Instead, a blood sample, which is much less conclusive, was taken that showed she had drunk a moderate amount. "An autopsy is best in cases like these...
...replace Wilson-Home Secretary James Callaghan and Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins -refused to support the plotters. Moreover, three other Cabinet Ministers, led by Secretary for Social Services Richard Grossman, took a strongly pro-Wilson stand. The Prime Minister felt so confident that he was able to brag to a May Day rally: "I know what is going on. I am going on. Your government is going on!" Wilson thereupon confided that he intended "taking this country by the scruff of the neck" and forcing it to do what was needed to be done, regardless of the consequences...
Final Wave. Barrientos liked to brag that he had walked away from 25 air crashes of one kind or another. Last week, making one of his rural visits, he failed to survive the 26th. Traveling by helicopter with a pilot and military aide, he landed on a basketball court in the Andean village of Arque. He dedicated a school honoring John F. Kennedy and a new public health dispensary, presented money for a town water-supply system and paused briefly for refreshments and handshaking. Then, with a final wave, he departed for the village of Tacopaya, 25 miles away. Rising...
...America's public astrologers has a byline that is carried by 306 newspapers each weekday into some 30 million homes. He refuses to brag about his earnings, but they are obviously well into six figures, and in the ascendant...
Class Strata. Though everyone on the rock scene is aware of the groupie phenomenon, it is next to impossible to know how many there are-mainly because rock stars, like most young men, tend to brag about their conquests. They come, says Zappa, "from any home that has contact with rock and roll and with radio and records. That's everybody." Zappa contends that there are thousands of them, ranging in age all the way from 50 ("Although they have to look damned good at that age to get any action") down...