Word: boast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...already crushed Columbia in a pre-holidays game, and went on to take the Kodak Classic in Rochester, N.Y., with victories over Holy Cross and University of Rochester. Cornell has also beaten Niagara, 84-78, a team led by the nation's leading scorer, Calvin Murphy. The Big Red boast a 7-1 record to date...
Ironically, Mercedes has also been getting a lot of speed from its go-slow policy of production, which has never quite matched demand. A big item in its current surge is its Model 250 sedans, which boast 2.5 liter engines and price tags of $4,000 and up. Introduced in early 1966, the popular 250 drew a two-year order backlog. That has kept production humming while competitors like Volkswagen have been forced to cut back...
Before last year, for example, the northern town of Yurimaguas could not boast a single motor vehicle. Last week trucks and buses rattled over its freshly concreted streets, stony-faced Indian women raced about on sleek Honda motorbikes, and stores were stocked with everything from American canned tomatoes to cold German beer. On down the road at Tarapoto, the local airport now handles more freight than any other in Peru except Lima. Along with Ford and Chevrolet agencies, Tarapoto has also sprouted no-parking signs and one-way streets...
...number two team in the nation last winter, losing to Cornell in the NCAA finals. Just as awesome is the string of seven victories the Terriers can boast over Harvard...
...first the new trees had to be imported from nurseries as far away as the Atlantic seaboard. Finally the town established a local "tree bank" that now covers 50 acres. On the tenth anniversary of the coming of the bulldozers, St. James can boast today that it has planted some 27,000 new trees-roughly nine for each of its inhabitants-and now qualifies as one of the most densely and handsomely wooded towns in the nation...