Word: boasting
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Every department has its problems, but the English Department can boast of an astounding number of difficulties. As a result of heavy course requirements, tutorial structure, and internal organization of courses, the English major and especially the candidate for honors is beset by many unfortunate and some time unnecessary problems...
These vote-getting practices, the products of two years of narrowly partisan, ungentlemanly, and short-sighted leadership, serve as one more indication that the HYRC has lost its right to boast of being both the biggest and the best undergraduate organization in the Yard. Members of the HYRC, past and present, can only be ashamed of their association with an organization which has now degenerated to the very cheapest level of political activity. Robert W. Haney...
Covering the Bets. Probably the best example of the industry's problems and prospects in the new Missile Age is famed old North American, whose proud boast is that it has made more airplanes than any other company. With its F-100 Super Sabre due to be phased out, it has a newer F107 version competing with Republic Aviation's F-105 in a Mach 2 fighter-bomber program...
...aftermath of the "glorious" invasion, Israel found itself ingloriously alone. It could boast of but one steadfast friend these days: France. Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion warned of "difficult political struggles" ahead, not so much with "our enemies" as with "peoples who do not hate Israel." Other Israelis noted glumly that some $30 million in U.S. grants-in-aid and a $75 million U.S. Export-Import Bank loan, both approved long before Israel's invasion of Egypt, had not been released since...
Statistics-From-All-Over: The Yale Daily News--"Did somebody say that basketball is not a 'gentleman's sport'? Of the 125 players listed on Ivy cage rosters, only 14 are prep school products..., On the other hand, 93 of the 120 Pentagonal League hockey players boast diplomas from prep schools...