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Word: boasts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fully manned Crimson squad will confront arch-rival Princeton at Princeton this Wednesday in a battle that will determine the Ivy championship. Both teams boast undefeated records. A Crimson triumph would mark the first time since 1966 that Harvard has captured the title...

Author: By Janie Smith, | Title: Netmen Settle for Second, Elis Capture New Englands | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

...other hand, the Islanders undoubtedly boast the superior side. In Bryan Trottier and Mike Bossy, they have two superstars of Gretzkyesque magnitude. In Billy Smith (3-1 against the Rangers in playoff competition), they have one of hockey's finest clutch goalies. They are deeper, more experienced, better...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Nobody's Watching | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

Nevertheless, they will be able to fulfill Pappy's boast of their mettle May 8-9 at the EAIAW meet...

Author: By James S. Mcguire, | Title: Women's Track Beats B.U. To Capture GBC Crown | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...obviously strong case of business smarts, has got ECM a felicitous distribution arrangement with Warner Bros. Records, which takes care of manufacturing and marketing and gives Eicher a free creative hand. Eicher, in turn, gives them not only jazz that sells records-a rare enough commodity-but jazz to boast about, jazz that sets a style and a standard. A young jazz musician would want an ECM label the way a short-story writer would want to be published in The New Yorker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sounds from a White Room | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...TALLEY'S FOLLY could boast only these accomplishments, it would be a successful melodrama, no more. It gains more stature by introducing the politics and history of the time it's set in--not in an obtrusive, doctrinaire way, but as a distant backdrop which only infrequently comes into full focus. Wilson doesn't so much expound the politics of America during World War II--the confusion on the left, the economic uncertainty, the awe at America's slowly unflexing muscles--as weave it into his characters' histories. At great length, with much defensive joking and shuffling of feet. Matt...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Where Politics and Emotion Meet | 4/25/1981 | See Source »

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