Word: boast
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...diaspora with a yearning for the restoration of their homeland. The Palestinians feel--and often are--unwanted in other parts of the Arab world. They want to live in and be part of their own culture. Like Jews, they value education very highly, and, despire their hardships, they can boast of 64,000 university graduates--only 3,000 less than Israel. It is one of the tragic ironies of history that Jewish nationalists--with the help of the Western colonial powers--inflicted the very fate on the Palestinian people they hoped to escape by establishing a jewish state...
...nation's great airlines. But of all the legends that trailed him throughout his long lifetime, none seemed to please Eddie Rickenbacker so much as the legend of his invincibility. "I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know," he liked to boast. "And I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down...
They say that the Square sells more books than cigarettes. Now that may be a vain boast; it is no secret that many of Harvard's best and brightest make it through four years without reading any. Somebody is either compulsive or hungry for book larnin' though, because books are big business in the Square. The Coop in the Annex in back of the main building) is the largest bookstore; it stocks almost all of Harvard's textbooks. The textbooks are on the third floor, paperbacks on the second, and hardcovers on the first. The Harvard Bookstore (1248 Mass...
...nickel." Last year, Berkey finally managed to recoup a bit on that mistake: Keystone brought out the only instant camera that has ever been developed by a manufacturer other than Polaroid. Company officials decline to say how well sales of the 60-Second Everflash are doing, except to boast that they are "better than we expected...
...Forum the scene was the same. The lights dimmed and the crowd (size: 12,000 to 22,000; age: 15 to 25) was allowed to roar for a full five minutes before Alice appeared in a Mephistophelean puff of smoke. What followed was certified proof of the Alice Cooper boast: "What we do is make sure that if some kid pays $6 to see a show he's not just going to see some guy playing a guitar. He is going to see something he'll never forget...