Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...players boast impressive credentials. Despite recent complaints against the selfishness of some NBA players, basketball is perfectly poised to resurrect the image of sports and sports figures which was damaged by the hockey lockout and baseball strike. The current NBA playoffs provide the perfect forum for unveiling the new savior of American sports...
Years ago, the Fresh Pond area was composed primarily of swamp land, brick yards and cattle yards. Little says. Today, the lands surrounding Fresh Pond boast many businesses, malls and theaters...
Even though the Corporation missed appointing an academic, they still could have done more to broaden their collective experience. Other universities boast senators, cardinals and federal judges on their governing boards. Harvard maintains a diverse crop on its board of Overseers, but they have so little power that they weren't even informed when former provost Jerry R. Green resigned or when Rudenstine took a medical leave of absence...
Thomas' 21st Century Blues from da Hood, with its unusual but mostly successful attempt to combine blues and rap, is the most ambitious of the three new CDs. His songs boast a crunching blues beat, brash guitars and howling harmonica solos. Thomas, 29, tries to bring the blues into the present. As he sings on the title track, "Whoever says the blues was dead/ Needs to come where I'm from where the streets are red." It's a gutsy album that works best when Thomas stops rapping and lets his music do the talking...
...living in the Yard, though boast of havingcompleted this part of the three-step traditionseveral times. "I've pissed on the base [of thestatue]. That's easy. It'd be harder to get it onthe knees or the face," says one first-year withtoo much leisure time...