Word: bragging
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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DOROTHY (WALKER) BUSH 1901-92 The most competitive Bush, she bred in her children the drive to win and the rule never to brag about it. While in the White House, her son called her every...
...Bush who pruned and staked the shrubbery. President Bush once described his mother, a championship-tennis player, as a "perfectionist, and a fierce competitor." She kept the Ping-Pong table in the entry hall of the Greenwich, Conn., house--the games were always front and center. Her rules? Never brag. Never quit. Never let 'em know you're hurting. Be honest. Be kind. Care about the other guy--help him. Don't look down on anyone. Compete hard. Play to win. Give the other guy credit. Until she died in 1992, her son the President telephoned her every...
...mechanical conveniences" will go beyond teletype and television. We'll have cell phones, laptops, wireless e-mail and connectivity to our computer systems around the world. With CNN and AOL, we'll report both actively and interactively for print, television and the Internet. I say this not to brag, but so that some person sitting in this chair 52 years from now can find this page and be amused by how quaint we seem...
...like to brag, but I myself won the coveted award seven and a half years ago, for my magazine cover story designating the newly elected Bill Clinton as TIME's Man of the Year. In retrospect, I do not claim that the award was entirely undeserved; I gushed a lot, and I did not foresee Monica Lewinsky. Sue me. But for the honor of the award, I would have felt better if Bozell had simply called me up and told me the truth: "You're a f---ing idiot...
...Council Treasurer Sterling P. A. Darling '01says that getting 250 responses is not necessarily anything to brag about...