Word: boasting
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...Jacobson accompanied President John F. Kennedy to his 1961 summit meeting with Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna, visited Kennedy at the White House and was often heard to boast that he treated both the Chief Executive and his wife. Last week the New York Times reported that the German-born G.P. could have done a good deal more name-dropping from his roster of rich and famous patients. The Times also suggested that those patients were getting some startling treatments. Dr. Jacobson, said the Times, had been dispensing amphetamines, the powerful stimulants known to the drug culture as "speed...
...time when European security is being negotiated with the Russians, the boast is no longer true. The question now is whether Spain can afford to do without Europe. The nation that up to now has contributed mainly maids and labor and a place in the sun to the rest of the Continent desperately needs "the political education or background to know how to get what we want," as University of Barcelona Student Victoria Gaya puts...
...Quakers' first three lines and first two sets of defense boast nine icemen from Ontario and three from Quebec. Second-time wing John Harwood and goalie Tim McQuiston are the only Americans who see action regularly...
...second and third lines boast five sophomores who have moved up from last year's 16-1 freshman squad. Bill Burlington centers the second line with Bill Bishop and freshman Bill Robbins on the wings. Newcomers Buddy Powers. Paul O'Neil and Peter McCann make up the third line...
Yardling athletic teams in hockey and squads both boast strong talent and expect winning the years, and the fresh basketball team shoots to hustle its way to Ivy League prominence despite unpredictability credentials, as the Class of '76 today dives into its first winter sports season at Harvard...