Word: boasting
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Within three or four years, Cambridge may be able to boast of one of the nation's most modern cable television systems--perhaps so complex that residents could talk back to the t.v., yet so simple that virtually anyone could gain access to the airways...
Part of the reason for Bossy's disappearing act is the skill and support of his teammates. The Islanders, last year's Stanley Cup champions, boast three former Rookies of the Year-Bossy, Trottier and Denis Potvin, who has also been voted the N.H.L.'s top defenseman three times. Opponents who spend too much time looking for Bossy get burned by Line-mates Trottier, the 1980 MVP, and Gillies. "People can say that Mike's success has come because we set him up to score, but it works both ways," says Trottier. "I never...
...Raiders boast a parallel on defense, Ted Hendricks, the Mad Stork. Together with "Dark Days" Lester Hayes--who recalls Dick "Night Train" Lane, having picked off 18 passes in 19 games--Hendricks will vanguard the Raiders' effort to eviscerate the birds...
...packing them into Broadway's biggest house night after night and sending them out into the frigid January air with silly smiles on their faces. But then this updated version of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance has something few other musicals can boast of: absolute, unqualified, irresistible...
...coping with the boredom of sitting in small rooms for endless hours with nothing to do. It is no longer known where they are being held. They were said to have been dispersed from the embassy to 15 cities throughout Iran last spring, and are now, so the Iranians boast, in Tehran hotels. The militants say they have turned over the hostages to the Iranian government, but the government has never confirmed...