Word: boast
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Chopped Hogs. Founded in 1950 at Fontana, a steel town 50 miles east of Los Angeles, the club now numbers about 450 in California. Their logbook of kicks runs from sexual perversion and drug addiction to simple assault and thievery. Among them, they boast 874 felony arrests, 300 felony convictions, 1,682 misdemeanor arrests, and 1,023 misdemeanor convictions. Of 151 An gels involved in the 300 felony convictions, only 85 have ever served time in prisons or reform schools...
...players, both left-handed, traded complicated three-wall "boast" shots frequently but Hetherington's game was just too sharp for Robinson, the varsity's second-ranked player this year. Number one player Romer Holleran had defaulted in an earlier round...
...Portuguese have controlled Mozambique since Vasco da Gama landed there on his way to India in 1498, but they have never really successfully colonized it. Although the Portuquese boast of their five centuries of "non-racial, Christian, civilizing mission," less than one percent of Mozambique's seven million African inhabitants are literate and less than five percent can speak Portuguese...
...promotion of Frey and Iacocca, both engineers, emphasizes the returning role of the engineer in Detroit, where the engineer predominated in earlier days but the stylists have taken most bows of late. As the Society of Automotive Engineers held its annual congress in Detroit last week, it could boast some top men as members: General Motors President John Gordon and G.M. Group Vice President Edward Cole are both engineers; so are four of Cole's five division vice presidents and Chrysler Vice President B. W. Bogan. The huge, complex auto companies are still marshaled by financial experts but, says...
...Succession. Outnumbered 5 to 1 by the forces of France, he failed miserably. Years later, Frederick the Great, remembering his days of apprenticeship, mourned the fate of both Eugen and Marlborough. "What a humbling reflection for our vanity," he wrote. "The greatest geniuses end up as imbeciles. Poor humanity, boast of your glory if you dare...