Word: boast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...skyjackers announced to Greek authorities that they had already murdered four of their hostages. Unless their demands were met, they said, they would take off again and crash the plane into the heart of Athens. They had actually murdered one hostage and wounded another, but the rest of their boast turned out to be a grisly bluff: they harmed none of the others, and had no intention of killing themselves. After 16 hours on the ground in Athens, the plane took off again...
Since the death of three cosmonauts on their way back to earth in June 1971, the Soviet Union has had little to boast about in its manned space program. Last week finally brought some good news from Moscow. For the second time in three months, a two-man spaceship was successfully launched from the Baikonur space complex in Soviet Central Asia. Barely two hours after Soyuz 13's liftoff, Soviet officials took the unusual step of showing live television pictures of the rookie cosmonauts: Air Force Major Pytor Klimuk and Aviation Engineer Valentin Lebedev. That was a sure sign...
...originally taped for the now defunct Epic classical label. Included here are choice anthologies of English, German and Austrian music (late 16th century to the 18th) for clavichord as well as harpsichord. Meanwhile, Kipnis, 43-year-old son of the great Russian basso Alexander, moves on. His Goldbergs boast boldly colored registrations, an entertaining songfulness, and a wondrous knack for making Baroque embellishments sound inevitable...
DeLorenzi was a key player on last season's squad which came on strong a the end of the campaign only to drop two overtime games to the eventual intercollegiate champions, Wisconsin, in the double elimination western playoffs for the nationals. The Irish also boast a schoolboy star from the Cambridge area, Brian "Dukie" Walsh, who played his high school hockey at Matignon. Walsh is the center of Notre Dame's first line and now fourth in team scoring with a 13-game total of nine goals and five assists...
...Crusaders boast a 3-2 record this fall, including an 81-70 win over Dartmouth and a 91-85 second-half comeback victory over the University of Connecticut. Harvard squeaked by Dartmouth, 65-64, and dropped its home opener to UConn...