Word: bragging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usually he worked twelve to 16 hours a day. He likes, on the basis of an eight-hour day, to brag that he has already worked 100 years for the U.P. During those 100 years, he had little time for friends or reading-beyond westerns and detective stories. He spent long weeks prowling the 10,000 miles of U.P. track, sometimes on foot. He learned literally every inch of it and, according to legend, the first names of some 10,000 U.P. workers. Hard on his employes, with a business eye he humored the slightest whims of passengers. When...
Since Babe Ruth's time, the American League has been measuring its muscle in terms of home runs and base hits. But by last week, with the season a third gone, it was plain that pitchers were replacing hitters as the strong men. With nothing much to brag about except their twirlers, the Tigers and Yankees were several lengths in front of the field. With every club congratulating itself on at least one star pitcher, 43 of 191 games were shutouts. The big names: Newhouser, Borowy, Leonard, Christopher-and an easygoing, hearty-eating rookie from Mississippi named Dave...
...Without meaning to brag (too much!!) we clear 24 major multiple wound cases . . . in 24 hours. We also have added 14 amputations to our regular day's surgery. These Field Hospitals really run an unbelievably heavy schedule. We just do them as they bring them in from the field...
...Bolshevism," Bolsheviks liked to brag, "has peopled half the jails of Europe with philosophers." In almost no time Stalin became one of these philosophers. His first arrests were for organizing illegal strikes and Marxist groups. Later he was jailed on more colorful charges. When Lenin split the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (1903) into a minority (Mensheviks) and a majority (Bolsheviks), Stalin followed Lenin. But times were hard. The Bolsheviks were only a handful of zealots. Their work was hampered by comrades who eked out lean livings as revolutionists by spying in their spare time for the Tsar...
...when the men of the 716th threw themselves on the mercy of a cold court last week, all their brag was gone. The defense made its points as well as it could: 1) the accused had been left largely to shift for themselves soon after Dday, and so had become easy prey for the black-marketeers; 2) officers knew of the situation and tolerated it; 3) so many units were entangled that feelings of moral guilt reached the vanishing point...