Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Officers of the W.S.L.F. boast that they control 80% of the Ogaden; they also concede that they have no hope of driving the Soviet-commanded force of 60,000 Ethiopian militiamen, supported by 6,000 Cuban soldiers, from their strongholds in Jijiga, Harar and Dire Dawa. "It is a stalemate," says Hussein Mohamed Nur, the slender commander of the liberation army in the region near Karraro. "They control the big towns, and we control everything else. They never come out unless it is in a big convoy with tanks and armored cars. Then we attack them and destroy many vehides...
Manila, Lisbon, Istanbul, Mexico City and Bogotá boast the cheapest prices, while Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), Abu Dhabi and Manama (Bahrain) are the most expensive. Incomes are also swept away rapidly in Tokyo, Oslo, Geneva and Copenhagen. The 2.2 lbs. of medium-quality rump steak that would cost $7 in the U.S. fetches $24 in Zurich and $41 in Tokyo. In Jeddah a smoker must pay $4.99 for a pack of Marlboro cigarettes...
Lemmon's power and hustle gave the gallery a few thrills, especially on one point where he made a diving backhand return, and scurried to his feet in time to hit a three-wall boast which barely glanced off the front wall and died...
...Liaison Office in Peking. To have headed the CIA, championing its cause when so many critics were clobbering it, is now an unanticipated political plus. Finally, Bush, too, has changed, shedding his New England-bred modesty and campaigning with the zest of a man willing to boast of his past and proclaim his future: "I can feel it in my bones. I'm going to be President...
...have taken popular music and used it to give frenzied life to Bakunin's maxim, "The lust to destroy is a creative lust." They have elevated their music to the point where such grand claims for it can't be dismissed out of hand--an achievement few musicians can boast...