Word: boastful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...LIBYA ACQUIRE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION? The program started at the very beginning of the revolution. The world was different then. It was not only Libya that was thinking along these lines. I know [former Romanian leader] Ceausescu used to boast that Romania was able to manufacture the nuclear bomb...
...identities were not revealed, are "a little above the rank of major or lieut. colonel," Torshin declared. If the men are guilty, their high rank would be more surprising than the fact that the rebels had penetrated law-enforcement agencies. Chechen guerrillas and their allies in the North Caucasus boast that they buy weapons from the Russian army and are assisted by local police. Meanwhile, bloody clashes, usually unreported in the media, occur daily in Chechnya. Last week, seven guerrillas were killed in a gunfight in Nalchik, capital of the once sleepy republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. A standoff...
Gullette pointed out the contradictions in American age culture. “We boast about longevity and health while the commerce of aging is backing down the life course, striking younger and younger people with the fear of aging past youth,” she said...
...duty” was mentioned, for instance. Bo Meng ’06, the overly weepy pirate Samuel, and T. Josiah M. Pertz ’05, the Charlie Chaplin waddling Sergeant of Police rounded out this wonderful cast, along with Allison Hymel and Emily Geller who boast perhaps the strongest voices as Mabel’s sisters Edith and Kate...
Houston did have its time to shine though and that time came during the diving events. The Cougars boast two world-class divers, Azul Almazan and Anna Kleis, who have both brought home numerous awards and honors for the Houston team. Both divers have qualified and competed in NCAA Championships. Almazan even competed in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney for her home country of Mexico and placed 13th in the three-meter dive event...