Word: boast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disgruntled fans filed out of Watson Rink on a cold night in January after watching Cornell edge Harvard in overtime, you could see them shaking their heads and mumbling in between the curses, "What do you have to do?" It was another frustrating loss, and the Crimson icemen could boast only a mediocre 6-7-1 record...
...icemen have registered impressive upsets this year, although they stand 14-13-1 overall with a mediocre 9-9-0 ECAC record. Beside their overtime win at UNH, the Engineers boast a 9-3 victory over Clarkson, an 8-2 victory over Boston University, a 5-2 win over Cornell, and a 7-1 trouncing of the Larries...
...this moment if, like the Watergate tapes, time could be erased or tampered with. The last few seconds of eight games this year have seen the Crimson bow by three points or less. Fifteen measly points in the right places, and Harvard could boast a 19-5 record, better on the books than NIT-bound St. John's and UMass...
Most of the visitors who received special treatment realized that they were seeing only small patches of sky. After New York Times Columnist C.L. Sulzberger left China, he wrote a wry piece last November indicating how little he had really been able to observe: "I can only boast I am the first American columnist over 60 to visit Inner Mongolia since 1949, and the first with a Greek wife to lunch in Chengchow...
...Florida, where 80% of all tourists arrive by car, hotel bookings are down 15%. Attendance at Walt Disney World near Orlando is off 6%, and the amusement park has had to lay off about 750 workers. Florida tourism officials bought space in out-of-state newspapers last month to boast that there was plenty of gasoline available in the state. Some visitors to the gas-short Miami area, which started rationing last week, have found no such plenitude. Jim Komer arrived in Miami from Kitchener, Ont., with his wife and another couple, but could not buy more than $2 worth...