Word: boast
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Fandango. No public campus in the country has moved faster in that direction than California's Berkeley, the Buckingham Palace of Clark Kerr's empire, across the bay from San Francisco. Few campuses boast an odder beginning. Berkeley's impecunious parent was a Congregationalist academy launched in 1853 by a Yale clergyman from Massachusetts. The campus was a fandango dance hall, but Founder Henry Durant in a letter home glowed over the "beauty and salubrity" of the place. He hoped to educate gold miners, and believed in looking on the bright side...
...decades the U.S. has prided itself on the purity of its drinking water. Today in many places the boast rings hollow. Sioux City, Iowa dumps ten tons of raw human sewage into the Missouri River daily; about half survives the trip downstream to the intake station through which Omaha, Neb. draws its entire city water supply. Necessity has forced Omaha to build one of the nation's finest water-purification plants, purchase $36,000 worth of chlorine a year. Still, says a Nebraska sanitation official, the water at times tastes "like hell-fire." In St. Louis County, residents have...
...campaign" was "trying to restore the prestige of the United States." In a speech to a Democratic gathering in Boston's Symphony Hall, Johnson hammered away at his point. "America no longer stands pre-eminent," he said. "Her friends are uncertain of her. Her adver saries boast, and with obvious relish, that they are certain-certain that they can and will overtake us and bury us. Under no single Administration in American history has the position of our nation in the world declined so far or so fast as it has under the Republicans now serving in Washington...
...first item on our agenda was a bus tour of the Stockton farms and farm laborers' housing. Here we were able to see the miserable conditions under which human beings are forced to live in a nation that likes to boast of its wealth. We walked through a labor camp, and although we had been "warned" what to expect, we were shocked to find how horribly our agricultural workers have been neglected...
...English. Scots cherish their own, dour Calvinistic church and their distinctive, Roman-influenced legal system, which features 15-man juries, permits the un-English verdict of "not proven"-meaning "we know you did it, but we haven't got enough to pin it on you." With justice, Scotsmen boast that their school system (which teaches the Scottish slant on British history) is superior to England's. The true Scot scorns such English institutions as cricket and fish and chips, preferring a hip-twisting Scottish reel and finnan haddie simmered in milk, which he compares to the finest French...