Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...venerable James Cagney and jazz immortal Elia Fitzgerald were named the Hasty Pudding Theatricals' 1982 Man and Woman of the Year. Between them, the two boast nearly a century of show business experience...
...unemployment rate from 7 per cent in July to 8.9 per cent in December. Unemployment in basic durable goods manufacturing as a whole stands at 11.8 per cent; in the automotive industry, at 21.7 per cent. So it should come as no surprise that two heavily industrialized states now boast unemployment figures in the Great Depression neighborhood: Michigan at 15.1 per cent and Ohio at 12.5 per cent...
Nineteen eighty-one was different. For all of Christmas week New Yorkers could boast two teams in the playoffs. It had never happened before, and chances are it will remain unique for quite a while...
...facile wit. The writing was fun, but rarely serious. Too much was written seriously, without revision or even serious editing. Yet, largely for his contributions to these publications, Reed's name became a familiar one to the undergraduate community. Achieving the position of Ibis on the Lampoon, Jack could boast to his mother in Portland that his name appeared more often in the Harvard student index than any other...
...Soviets, like most paranoids, have real enemies, notably the Chinese, but in many respects the Americans as well. Reagan's boast that the last chapter of Communism is now being written and that the West will "transcend" its Soviet rival must have sounded to listeners in Moscow every bit as threatening as Nikita Khrushchev's famous vow 25 years ago, "We will bury you," sounded to American ears...