Word: boasts
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Shipping arms to the Middle East is like carrying coals to Newcastle, but the news last week still brought shudders. Already a formidable player in the area, Syria will soon boast an even stronger hand. According to U.S. officials, the Soviet Union is preparing to send a new type of mobile battlefield missile, the SS-21, to Syria for the first time. The surface-to-surface weapon, developed in 1976 and never before deployed outside the Warsaw Pact nations, has a range of about 75 miles. Its immediate predecessor, the FROG-7, could go only 40 miles. Armed with...
...Navy and Army shudder. Of the 200,000 inhabitants of Oahu, 1,500 were dead, 1,500 others injured. Washington called the naval damage "serious," admitted at least one "old" battleship and a destroyer had been sunk, other ships damaged at base. Meanwhile Japan took to the radio to boast that the U.S. had suffered an "annihilating blow...
MIDDLE EAST Birth of a Nation Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth...
Both sides last week contained men who felt compelled to boast of tomorrow. Whatever hope there was of an understanding between Israel and the Arab states, short of years of debilitating conflict, lay in the fact that there were some who were boasting as little as possible...
When Anderson lost the Republican nomination, his announcement that he would continue as an independent isolated him even further from more conservative party members, and endeared him to Democrats who found Carter too incompetent to continue to run the nation. Anderson could boast the support of a quarter of the electorate, while another 40-odd percent said they didn't know enough about the Congressman to vote...