Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tomorrow will be a different story. New Hampshire--19-13-1 overall last season--used to boast one of the finest lines in college hockey until coach Charlie Holt broke it up to form two good lines. Now, Dan Forget and Andy Brickley will skate with Steve Lyons, while Chris Pryor has been teamed with George White and Jay Miller...
...only recently--as recently as last Sunday--that the Terriers have shown signs of revitalization. A 5-3 loss on the road to a Providence College squad nationally ranked in both polls showed that the Terriers (1-1-1 overall this year) are capable of playoff-caliber hockey, a boast coach Jackie Parker hasn't been able to make recently...
...music critic of the New York Herald Tribune from 1940 to 1954, he skewered arrogance and stupidity in the musical establishment with a perceptive gusto unknown since the critical heyday of George Bernard Shaw. Composer Aaron Copland, his contemporary, calls him "about as original a personality as America can boast." This week, in what is far from the least of his accomplishments, Virgil Thomson turns a hale and peppery...
After a day on campus, it's hard to contest the admission's pamphlet boast of "something in the air that makes you proud to be a Tar Heel...
...N.C.C. is facing a constricted ecumenical base. Its 32 denominations boast 40 million members, which covers most Orthodox adherents but only...