Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even though the Crimson is coming off a 29-point blowout of Yale, Penn and Princeton will not be as easy, as both teams boast impressive winning streaks. Penn has won six out of its last seven games, including an overtime win against Brown--which defeated Harvard 65-57 last weekend. Princeton, on the other hand, has won four out of its last five games...
When she died on Jan. 22, after years of failing health but at the remarkable age of 104, she left behind five children, 28 grandchildren--and a motto as legacy to all who mourned her passing: ``I know not age, nor weariness, nor defeat.'' The boast is testament to her ability to craft legend out of the exigencies of real life. Of course, Rose Kennedy knew age and weariness and defeat. Many times over. She outlived four of her children and a husband who loved and humiliated her. She endured the haunting gossip and relentless scrutiny accorded all her family...
...start of a spiral back down into depression. In between, inflation and unemployment rates might be low (unbelievably so by today's standards) but so was the growth rate, at least by comparison with the Soviet Union. Maybe the U.S.S.R. really would "bury" us economically-a Nikita Khrushchev boast that was taken more seriously by Americans than it ever was by Khrushchev...
...skirmishers in our health-insurance wars like to boast, has the best medical care in the world, what is the actual state of our health...
...boss, alas, could not yet boast...