Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BROWN: Many pre-season forecasts have put Brown on top of the Ivy heap. True, the Bruins boast perhaps the best individuals offensive player in the league--quarterback Larry Carbone--and the top defensive player--linebacker John Woodring--but the bears will need more than that to weave their way to the head of the pack...
...awesome boast is on view. Part of its subtlety depends on the fact that everyone in town knows the man who began and finished these piles...
...only was the American boycott a gift to Soviet propaganda but it will also allow Misha to boast, "I finally scared them...
Today the National Council of Churches likes to boast that Sunday schools are still the nation's biggest volunteer enterprise, with a total enrollment of 35.6 million (27.1 million Protestant, 8.5 million Catholic). Still, if Wesley were alive, he would be glum. Except for conservative churches like the Southern Baptists, who are doing well, Sunday school participation has dropped by almost 25% in the past ten years. "Mainline" Protestant churches-Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopal, have been worst hit. Says California's Institute for American Church Growth: "The Sunday school is in a desperate struggle for its very existence...
...Boston does boast some of the best real pizza in Monroe Doctrine precincts. The North End--the Italian section--Six Flags Over Italian Cuisine, an amusement park for the palate. The best pizza, the best beer, the best atmosphere--all belong to Regina's, the uncontested queen of North End fare...