Word: boasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat." This time around, the dying leader has more to worry about than just the squabbling between his sons Adonijah and Solomon over who will succeed him. There is his reputation to consider: "I don't like to boast-I know I boast a bit when I say I don't have to boast-but I honestly think I've got the best story in the Bible. Where's the competition?" This premise undeniably has promise: David looking back on his tempestuous career not only from...
World War II may be over, but the Japanese have announced that they will overtake the Russians on Hawaii. Japanese astronomers have submitted a plan to their government to build the world's largest telescope. The approximately $85 million structure would boast a seven-meter diameter reflector, which is one meter larger than the world's largest single mirror telescope, located in the Soviet Union...
Elsewhere, Harvard may boast more firepower than its over had, and that's the reason that Crimson Coach Edie Mabrey admits "that if we're going to do it, we're going to do it this year...
...first winner: an eight-line screen with a full-size keyboard that could be sold with built-in software for less than $800. Marketed in slightly different models by Radio Shack, NEC and Olivetti, the machine was an instant hit. Hewlett-Packard and Epson have already introduced "laptops" that boast even more advanced features, and Data General is set to launch a machine next week that shows 25 lines of text...
...Samoa to Greenwich Village, it seemed, she was everybody's mother-an irony not lost on Mary Catherine Bateson, now an anthropologist herself, who judged Mead to be "less than fully nurturant" when it came to her own daughter. Bateson expresses bittersweet amusement at her mother's boast that when Baby Cathy was six weeks old, "we let the nurse go and took care of her ourselves for a whole weekend...