Word: boastfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pistol Pete" Varney doesn't boast. But he has a lot he could boast about...
...golfers boast a 7-1 record, but today's contest will prove the true mettle of the team...
More, More, More. Youngsters have taken Bell & Howell a long way. The founders, who stuck pretty much to movie equipment, provided Hollywood with its first reliable projectors and cameras, could fairly boast that they "took the flickers out of the flicks." Chuck Percy sought new fields, led Bell & Howell deep into such areas as microfilm and mailing systems, business machines and bindery gear...
...clear asset. Like his older brother, he is attracted to a vague kind of fancy rhetoric, consisting chiefly of parallelisms (often redundant) and alliteration (often meaningless). This means he is attracted to a speechwriter named Ted Sorensen, who apparently drafted Kennedy's kick-off speech Saturday and who cab boast some of the decade's most quoted catch-phrases, including the sinister but obviously popular "Ask not what your country can do for you" line. Kennedy's delivery is fast and clumsy, and his voice squeaks along sometimes unaffected by dropped sentences, grammatical non-sequiturs and patent evasions...
Finally there was Germain G. Glidden '36, an artist whose portrait of Harry Cowles hangs in Hemenway Gymnasium. Picking out Glidden's lightening speed as his greatest asset, Cowles, with inspired genius, gave him a tricky three wall shot, the "boast," that only an extraordinarily fast player could risk using. Glidden's matches were always played at a blinding tempo, and he captured the National title in '36, '37, '38, and retired undefeated from national play...