Word: boast
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...second period was perhaps just a blur, or more appropriately, a nightmare, for the hapless Terriers--who boast only club team status--as they yielded five more Crimson tallies...
...more than 25 years, broke silence to charge that one component of "Dr. B's" treatment was physical abuse. Investigating scholars belatedly discovered that Bettelheim had lifted, without credit, many of his provocative insights from other writers and had flagrantly lied about his background. For example, he liked to boast that his entry into analytic training had been approved by Sigmund Freud himself. But there is no evidence that he ever met Freud or trained to be an analyst. (Bettelheim's doctorate was in philosophy, not medicine or psychology...
...other hand, the Catamounts boast two all-American Hobey Baker candidates in Eric Perrin and Martin St. Louis who, in particular, know how to bear down and score...
...state final tour, he spoke of unity and "common ground," of meeting challenges together, of "opportunity, responsibility and community." He distilled his first-term accomplishments into a few impressive paragraphs--10.7 million new jobs, 4.5 million new home owners, and on and on in a giddy boast that took flight and soared clear into tomorrow: "Let us build a bridge together, wide enough and strong enough to carry all of us into the bright future that is America in the 21st century." His face was flushed and glowing. He had not slept but was not tired. If he could have...
...Richard doesn't have a clue what they are talking about, except that he burns trash, and it could have been an aerosol can," says Wood. He points out that a government memorandum states that investigators could find no metal fragments near where the explosion supposedly took place. The boast "I'm going to be famous"? The government memorandum says the colleagues who allegedly heard this comment are still being sought, and Wood is convinced that whoever mentioned it heard about it secondhand. Taking a break? Jewell was going to the bathroom...