Word: boasts
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THAT THE SOCIALIST wave reached its peak in France on June 21, 1981 is a view not likely to be contested by the history books. By taking 289 of a possible 491 seats in Parliament, the Socialist Party can now boast outright possession of the legislative in addition to its recent acquisition of the executive branch of the government. A half-century battle by the oft-divided Left has finally, and convincingly, been won. For members of the new opposition, it is time for soul-searching and question-answering...
Smiling as he walked toward his black, open-top limousine, the Pontiff stopped for an instant when greeted by a young girl bearing a welcome-back bouquet. Due for a second operation by month's end, the Pontiff was nevertheless in high spirits. "You think you can now boast that you made me a new person," he reportedly told his doctors, "but I'm the same rascal I have always been." -By E. Graydon Carter
Atop the organization, according to the investigators, was Venerable Grand Master Gelli, who is believed to have fled the country. A onetime mattress manufacturer, Gelli had been a diehard fascist during World War II. He lived for years in South America and used to boast about his connections with the late Argentine Dictator Juan Domingo Peron. Gelli apparently took over an ordinary Masonic lodge and then recruited members primarily on the basis of wealth and station...
...standard of modesty evolved out of concerns deeper than ephemeral questions of style and etiquette. The discipline of reining in one's tendency to boast is, after all, merely part of the larger discipline of keeping the ego in check. And why should anyone wish to do that? Simply because the main thing that traps people into spiritual emptiness is some sort of berserk ego. Says Psychologist Shirley Sugerman in Sin and Madness: Studies in Narcissism: "The ancient wisdom of both East and West [tells] repeatedly of man's tendency to self-idolatry, self-encapsulation, and its result...
...action, despite President Bok's protestations to the contrary in his latest Open Letter. Yet articles continue to question the presence of minority students on campus, insinuating that those who had to over-come racial and income obstacles have fewer grounds for admission than football players, since the latter boast a special talent...