Word: boasting
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...When I meet God, I expect to meet him as an American." Though that may sound like a boast by Babbitt, it comes from the Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, an outspoken critic of the Viet Nam War and America's indifference to the poor. But Neuhaus, 39, a white pastor of a largely black Lutheran church in Brooklyn, has always kept everyone off balance. When he led his parish in an antiwar protest service in 1967, he insisted that the youths who were turning in their draft cards join in a lusty chorus of America the Beautiful...
...strategy applied to fund-raising is tinged by psychological considerations. Thompson feels that a campaign gains momentum if it can already boast of a donation when it goes into full sway...
...that could boast more than its share of eccentric geniuses, George Sand remained almost unchallenged in her reputation as the most provocative woman of her time. In the 19th century, as now, her public image was that of a cigar-smoking iconoclast in top hat and trousers, an unabashed libertine of dubious sexual inclinations. She was also the writer whom Dostoyevsky dubbed "the Christian par excellence" and whom Elizabeth Barrett Browning hailed as "the first female genius of any country...
...million members), richest and most aggressive labor organization, with a stop-or-go hold over deliveries of everything from automobiles to bread. Over-the-road, long-distance truck drivers are still the well-paid Teamster elite (average salary: $20,000), but the union has also largely fulfilled its boast to organize "everything aboveground on wheels." It represents drivers of almost every imaginable vehicle from ice cream trucks to hearses...
...Sleep got around these problems partly through strong writing and heavy acting power, but also because the genre was newer then. More recently, Chinatown combined a script of elegant complexity with the sort of terse romanticism that made the plot move with comparative ease. The Drowning Pool can boast only the formula without the chemistry-plus Paul Newman, reviving his Harper character of some ten years back...