Word: boasting
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...Islamic banner to justify kidnapping, massacres and extortion, had given the President 48 hours to accept a Malaysian businessman as negotiator. After that, Abu Sayyaf threatened, it would start killing the hostages. With the clock ticking away, Arroyo gave in to the rebels' demands?only to have them boast of beheading the Californian tourist anyway. Jeered Abu Sabaya: "It's up to you to find Sobero's head ... but the dogs may beat you to it." Speaking to diplomats after the 103rd Independence Day festivities, the diminutive President flourished some of her trademark rhetorical steel. The alleged murder, she said...
Harvard's team, while comprised of many walk-ons, is very talented. The Crimson can boast of having three All-Americans on their roster in Junior Captains Sean Doyle and Susan Bonney, and junior Margaret Gill...
...survive, schools like Paramount must compete for market share by advertising in newspapers, putting up lawn signs and showering parents with pamphlets. Paramount likes to boast about its tiny student-teacher ratios, school uniforms and musical-theater program. A flyer for the school asked, "Are you ready for a change in public schools...
...Only by pulling the fire alarm were the men able to enter the dorms while the women fled. Harvard men stormed through all five floors of Cabot--even going through the housemother's rooms--and destroying Radcliffe's boast that "a man never has been above the first floor of the dormitories...
Powerhouse nations have powerful sports organizations. Japan. South Korea. Even China. They all boast big-time soccer, baseball or basketball leagues playing to packed houses with national television audiences. What then does the sorry state of pro sports in Indonesia say about the 200 million-strong archipelago? Perhaps more than abandoned building projects or creeping separatism, Indonesia's National League, a 28-team soccer federation that plays in decrepit stadiums on spotty pitches, is enough to make even the most patriotic pribumi wonder what has gone wrong...