Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stodgy U.S. senate cannot boast many funny moments, and that's just one reason Larry Pressler is such a standout. Take the time a few years ago when the South Dakota Republican got up to leave the Senate Commerce Committee and walked instead into a closet. When he re-emerged a few minutes later, he tried to act as if nothing had gone wrong. He looked back into the empty space, waved as if he were saying goodbye to someone and closed the door. Then he located the real exit and left to titters from the audience...
...Henry in the 800 meter, the Crimson could only boast a handful of scoring performances. Henry won the 800 in 1:49.7, Dusek placed second in the javelin, throwing 211'4" and Carswell placed second in the 5,000 meters with a time...
...University resolved to find a successor to Pusey who could boast a decidedly more modern outlook on campus life...
...River valley's most prosperous farmers, the sugar-beet growers, show little fear. Beet-sugar producers like to boast that they are not directly helped by Washington; in fact, the government restricts imports of raw sugar and provides cheap loans to farmers so they can market their beets when prices are highest. Last month the Government Accounting Office called the program a "cartel" that costs consumers $1.4 billion annually in higher sugar prices. Throughout the spring, officials from American Crystal Sugar, the large local beet cooperative, have made repeated trips to Washington to save some part of "the sugar program...
Since Harvard guarantees all of its undergraduates housing for each of their four years, the housing office can boast that 96 percent of students live in the residential Yard or House system...