Word: boasting
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...other hand, the Islanders undoubtedly boast the superior side. In Bryan Trottier and Mike Bossy, they have two superstars of Gretzkyesque magnitude. In Billy Smith (3-1 against the Rangers in playoff competition), they have one of hockey's finest clutch goalies. They are deeper, more experienced, better...
Nevertheless, they will be able to fulfill Pappy's boast of their mettle May 8-9 at the EAIAW meet...
...obviously strong case of business smarts, has got ECM a felicitous distribution arrangement with Warner Bros. Records, which takes care of manufacturing and marketing and gives Eicher a free creative hand. Eicher, in turn, gives them not only jazz that sells records-a rare enough commodity-but jazz to boast about, jazz that sets a style and a standard. A young jazz musician would want an ECM label the way a short-story writer would want to be published in The New Yorker...
...TALLEY'S FOLLY could boast only these accomplishments, it would be a successful melodrama, no more. It gains more stature by introducing the politics and history of the time it's set in--not in an obtrusive, doctrinaire way, but as a distant backdrop which only infrequently comes into full focus. Wilson doesn't so much expound the politics of America during World War II--the confusion on the left, the economic uncertainty, the awe at America's slowly unflexing muscles--as weave it into his characters' histories. At great length, with much defensive joking and shuffling of feet. Matt...
...splash in 1966, when at age 72 he reportedly swam nine miles down the Yangtze River. Then Rumania's Party Boss Nicolae Ceauşescu made hunting history in 1978 by bagging the largest bear ever shot in Europe. Now it appears that Fidel Castro too can boast of a fancy feat. During the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, he is said to have shot down singlehanded an American U-2 plane...