Word: boastfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bruins, who looked generally weak against Ward's curves, had only catcher Lon Murgo's three-bagger and one scratch hit to boast about going into the ninth. John Valinote opened the inning with a double, and Ward hit the next batter, right fielder Bob McCue. Bob MacCounell was given an intentional pass to load the bases, but the next man up third baseman Bobby Wheeler, hit a bag fly to Benny Akillian in left. Akillian's throw was fast but wide; Valinote scored and the game was over...
...charter is the first constitution to be enacted under U.S. federal auspices since Arizona and New Mexico joined the union 40 years ago. Puerto Ricans boast that it is the most up to date. After years of emotional turmoil over what governmental status they wanted, Puerto Ricans chose neither statehood nor independence. They decided to become a sort of associated free state or commonwealth. Sumner Welles once described the arrangement as "divorce with alimony...
Here Today . . . Standard atlases do not even agree on heights of some of the Alpine peaks. Some governments like to pad their population figures; some cities boast a bewildering array of spellings-e.g., Jebeil, Jubeil, Jebail, Jubayl, Jbail Djebail, Djoubeil. In Russia, a city's name is apt to change with the size of its population; in China, it can change with the seasonal movement of a district capital (e.g., Shanmulung officially becomes Lungchwan in the winter; Changfengkai becomes Lungchwan in the summer). Islands present a special problem: the South Pacific's volcanic Fonuafoo, for instance, emerged...
...visitors boast Dick Squires, a member of last year's champion intercollegiate doubles team, at number one; he will face a familiar squash and tennis opponent in Captain Charlie Ufford. The Crimson star defeated Squires in the winter sport but enters this afternoon's match a slight underdog...
Sarasota, Fla. is the winter training ground of "The Greatest Show on Earth." It can also boast an elegant sideshow: one of the nation's greatest collections of Baroque art, housed in Sarasota's salmon-pink John and Mable Ringling Museum. The public favorite at the museum is Paolo Veronese's Rest on the Flight into Egypt...