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Word: boasting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...superstar on the verge of becoming (what lunatic debasement of language will serve?) a Big Superstar. Executives of Elektra/Asylum/Nonesuch, the Los Angeles company for which she records, are shyly trying out a considerable boast: "Right now Linda is the most successful female singer in record history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Linda Down the Wind | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...Elis (3-0 in the Ivies) boast four multi-talented swimmers in Michelle Robertson (butterfly sprints), Nancy Cahill (breastroke sprints), Carolyn Hyde (distance freestyles) and Molly Smith (backstroke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Just a Peek at the Weekend's Activities in Philly... | 2/18/1977 | See Source »

Other authors may not be able to make that boast. Random House is suing A.E. Hotchner to recoup an $11,250 advance for a memoir that he completed but the publisher rejected as "unsatisfactory." Putnam has begun proceedings against Joseph Hayes (The Desperate Hours) to regain $33,750 for a book called Missing and Presumed Dead that Putnam refused to publish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Advance Guard | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

...none could be more than 19--who hail from Forest Hills, New York. Forest Hills has spawned a great number of talented rock performers in its day--among them Sam the Sham and two of his Pharoahs, and two of the Four Seasons--but few of those people could boast the unique combination of sex appeal (good looks) and truly brilliant lyrics that these boys provide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROCK | 2/9/1977 | See Source »

Perhaps Mr. Bright should have thought of a less boastful slogan than I FOUND IT! "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast" [Ephesians 2: 8-9]. Many evangelical Christians would agree that a more appropriate slogan would be HE FOUND...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 24, 1977 | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

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