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Word: boastfulness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...state final tour, he spoke of unity and "common ground," of meeting challenges together, of "opportunity, responsibility and community." He distilled his first-term accomplishments into a few impressive paragraphs--10.7 million new jobs, 4.5 million new home owners, and on and on in a giddy boast that took flight and soared clear into tomorrow: "Let us build a bridge together, wide enough and strong enough to carry all of us into the bright future that is America in the 21st century." His face was flushed and glowing. He had not slept but was not tired. If he could have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASTERS OF THE MESSAGE | 11/18/1996 | See Source »

...Richard doesn't have a clue what they are talking about, except that he burns trash, and it could have been an aerosol can," says Wood. He points out that a government memorandum states that investigators could find no metal fragments near where the explosion supposedly took place. The boast "I'm going to be famous"? The government memorandum says the colleagues who allegedly heard this comment are still being sought, and Wood is convinced that whoever mentioned it heard about it secondhand. Taking a break? Jewell was going to the bathroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STRANGE SAGA OF RICHARD JEWELL | 11/11/1996 | See Source »

...feel particularly responsible for analysis when the statistics and facts concern Canada; I have always prided myself on staying in touch with our neighbors to the north. Not to boast, but several years ago I set the American- columnist record for consecutive columns mentioning Canada (two). If Clinton had blowout numbers in Canada, it was up to me to say what they meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DON'T COUNT THAT VOTE! | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

...least in theory, their enemy and the threat to their safety and sovereignty was identified for them. There was no need to guess, speculate, strategize or ponder the state of the world and the balance of power. In other words, one might suspect that medieval Constantinople did not boast the best job market for foreign policy gurus...

Author: By Eric M. Nelson, | Title: Look To the East | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

Modern reef-building corals are descendants of organisms that first appeared in the fossil record 225 million years ago. These ancient carnivores, cousins of sea anemones and jellyfish, boast stinging cells and tentacles for stunning and capturing prey. But while corals have survived the onset of major ice ages and variations in sea level of hundreds of feet, there are limits to the conditions they can tolerate. For example, they cannot build reefs in water colder than 60[degrees] F or in murky depths. They live in symbiotic relationships with colonies of tiny algae called zooxanthellae that depend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WRECKING THE REEFS | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

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