Word: boast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wednesday at 7 p.m. the Crimson closes out the holiday schedule against hard-driving Northeastern. The Huskies boast a 6-1 record, including a 6-2 rout of Harvard and a 4-2 victory over powerful Brown...
...crash. Fearing revolution and contemptuous of his fellow capitalists for not foreseeing the crash, Kennedy became an early, enthusiastic supporter of his old antagonist Franklin D. Roosevelt. He worked hard on William Randolph Hearst, who controlled the California delegation. Hearst finally came around, and Kennedy liked to boast that he was responsible, "though you don't find any mention of it in history books...
...always been the proud boast of the U.S. armed forces that their pilots would go to extravagant lengths to rescue comrades in trouble. Helicopters flap into impossible places to save plane-crash survivors; skindivers drop to the aid of downed astronauts; search-and-rescue craft crisscross vast areas of ocean. And now the lifesaving arsenal has a new weapon: the military Skyhook developed by Connecticut Inventor Robert E. Fulton...
Most teams have one topflight quarterback, if that. The Bills boast two: Jack Kemp, 29, who led the San Diego Chargers to two straight Western Division championships before going to Buffalo on waivers for $100; and Daryle Lamonica, the ex-Notre Dame star, who has engineered winning touchdown drives in four of the Bills' seven games...
Lulled Partisans. Perhaps the compounding error his fellow professionals were least likely to forgive Goldwater was the utter lack of coordination of his campaign. He could boast that he had put the G.O.P.. which in August was some $600,000 in the red, back in the black. The more pertinent fact was that the organization that had maneuvered the conservative wing into power in San Francisco had turned into a bumbling, disorganized wreck when faced with conducting a full-fledged campaign on a national scale. And the greatest humbler of them all was Barry, who repeatedly took audiences...