Word: boasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...home gardeners pore over seed catalogs and boast of homegrown salads; she knows that "Nature, far from being on your side, is actively against you, attacking with bugs, molds, rot, cankers, neighboring dogs, raccoons, skunks, porcupines, drought, torrential rains, 'black' frosts, snow heaves, winter- kill. And I cannot think that the satisfaction derived is in the results, however beautiful or tasty . . . The fact is that gardening, more than most of our other activities except sometimes love-making, confronts us with the inexplicable...
...boast what is perhaps the most intimidating day-to-day lineup in the majors. Eight years ago, four players on the 1977 Red Son, drove in a 100 or more runs...
Both squads also boast freshmen who have set new rookie goal scoring records but are better known for their famous fathers...
...boast or anything, but I know in my heart that Harvard will come back and win it. After all, the squad has pulled off third-period heroics before: the last-minute overtime-forcing goal at Colgate, the three-goal game-tying rally at Boston College...
...proved by The Cosby Show, the new season's biggest hit. Enter Sara, a very adult sitcom about a single lawyer (Geena Davis) trying to make it on her own in San Francisco. The show is being touted as 1985's answer to the Mary Tyler Moore Show, a boast that can most charitably be described as optimistic. Davis, a tall brunet with an annoying habit of talking into her chest, has little of Mary's tough-but- vulnerable charm, and the gag lines would have embarrassed the crowd at WJM- TV. (A friend, chiding Sara for taking low-paying...