Word: boast
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It’s not just the ability to party in our slippers that makes us love the Quad so much. We are well-fed, well-housed, and damn talented up here in Harvard’s northern woods. Our dining halls boast the best cooks (check the survey), we have the Pfoho Grille, and now crimsonfood.com delivers right to our doors. In the Quad, we have a higher frequency of singles—and obviously larger rooms in general—than any of the River Houses (with the exception of Mather’s lovely prison cells). There...
...likes to boast about its internal market of 450 million consumers, but when it comes to the service sector - which accounts for 70% of the European economy - life is anything but a bed of roses. More than a decade ago, the E.U. knocked down the major barriers impeding the free movement of goods, but a patchwork of local legislation and practices continues to hinder the movement of services. From accountants, lawyers and realtors to hairdressers, midwives and plumbers, those who try to offer services outside their home country risk being strangled by red tape...
...Crimson defensive corps did not boast its usual mental sharpness, but with Grumet-Morris to backstop it, the blueline group had allowed just one Colgate score. Moreover, Harvard could now look to the scoreboard and see its own advantage, right next to the clock that crept towards zero...
...center, Melinda can boast a charismatic actress. Mitchell has often been cast as the excess-baggage wife (Phone Booth, Man on Fire, Finding Neverland). Here, channeling the neuroses of all preceding Allen heroines, she exudes a hurt and danger, an intensely sexual intelligence that plays off her patrician beauty. In her care, Melinda is part comic, part tragic, all magic. --By Richard Corliss
...Pull Up the People,” the album’s first proper track, makes mincemeat of Ali’s famed boxing boast, as butterfly-crushing bass hits gently buzz underneath the sugary stings of a thousand sonic bees. On “Bingo,” steel drums and swaying low end are joined during the chorus by gnashing, squelching keys that make you really want to “hit a six,” whatever that means...