Word: boast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could argue with Longo's boast, as far as it goes. Italy's robust Communist Party has not just survived, it has thrived. But it has fallen far short of another forecast. At the time of the 1921 Leghorn meeting, it was the view of Lenin and the Comintern that Italy had all the "required conditions to guarantee the victory of the great proletarian revolution." Lenin, in fact, saw not only Italy but much of Western Europe as ripe ground for Communism, thanks to its broad base of industrial workers. Today there are Communist or Marxist regimes...
...Quakers boast one of the tallest front lines in the Ivies with 6-8 Tom Wolf at center, and 6-3 Bob Morse, Penn's leading scorer and rebounder, and 6-7 Corky Calhoun at the forwards...
...report is sharply critical of the Nixon Administration's boast that 90% of the Southern school systems are now desegregated. Not only are there many segregated schools within such systems, but even in desegregated schools widespread segregation persists in classrooms, buses and extracurricular activities...
Despite their success, however, the holdup men were essentially amateurs. In all their jobs, they managed to steal a total of only $275,000. And when the three men were caught last week, they were so eager to boast about their exploits that they implicated the other seven gang members, four of whom had already bungled their way into jail on other charges...
...portrait by Karmel, in turn, reflects more of the spirit of revolutionary Paris than any neutral reportage is likely to do. Karmel nudges the reader once or twice too often to see parallels between Restif's Revolution and those of modern times. But he has superbly proved his boast that "this is the book Restif did not write but should have." All it lacks is a modest degree of "truth in packaging...