Word: boast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Adams, Franklin Pierce, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Herbert Hoover, Richard M. Nixon, Gerald Ford and an eclectic lot of non-Presidents including John Foster Dulles, George Gallup, Aaron Burr, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Walt Disney and Humphrey Bogart. Though the Church News makes no mention of it, Kimball can boast such a fruitful family tree largely because his grandfather, in the polygamous old days, had 45 wives...
...Perfect Couple Is Robert Altman's 14th film in nine years, his second so far in 1979. He needs to slow down. Although his new movie is easier to take than the last, the ridiculous Quintet, it is still a rushed and tired work. A Perfect Couple does boast a superficial resemblance to Altman's best social comedies, like The Long Goodbye and Nashville, but it has about one-third the energy. The jokes don't fly, the actors don't sparkle, the craftsmanship doesn't dazzle. Altman is merely going through the motions, with...
Frequent purges and the faltering economy took a heavy toll on barracks morale, and last year several of Big Daddy's military units mutinied. Seeking to give his men something to cheer about, Amin decided to make good on an old boast that he would seize a patch of frontier territory in Tanzania that he insisted belonged to Uganda. By year's end, Tanzania's Nyerere had decided to pay Amin back in kind. His invasion force, small but well enough supplied with missiles that it was able to shoot down most of Uganda...
...with $9,000 in cash. He also bought a new Cadillac for his girlfriend. Before he picked up the T-bird, however, FBI agents fitted it with an eavesdropping bug and a small radio transmitter that constantly signaled its whereabouts. Sepe's next mistake was to boast about the Lufthansa caper to passengers in his car -taped conversations that the FBI found most interesting, especially those with Peter Gruenewald, who worked as a Lufthansa cargo agent...
...trackwomen, who boast a 5-2 record on the season, plan to send eight squad members to Princeton this weekend to compete in the Easterns. Their outdoor season opens April 7 with a dual meet against the University of Massachusetts...