Word: bragging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three weeks a tiny nation, suffering under the disadvantages of a sneak attack and of being outgunned and outmanned. bulled its way to within striking distance of both major Arab capitals. Now is that anything for the Arabs to brag about? I fail to see how this makes the Arab forces "able." I hope Israel does not reward Arab aggression with a return to pre-1967 borders...
These pessimists sell their advice through counseling services, newsletters and books. Like anyone else in the habit of making a great many predictions, sooner or later they are able to say, as they do now: "I told you so." Almost all of the scaremongers, for example, like to brag about having recommended that their clients buy gold coins or gold-mining shares, or make similar hedges against recession. With recent jumps in the prices of precious metals-gold coins have doubled in value in the past year-many of their clients have indeed made handsome profits. But the gloomy prognosticators...
Last night's senior dinner at Kirland was marred somewhat by a bunch of rowdy rowers from Eliot House who paraded around outside Kirkland in an inebriated state shouting "We're number one." The overbearing oarsmen had a right to brag as Eliot swept both the A and B intramural crew races yesterday from traditional rowing power Kirkland...
Images boasts Susannah York in its central role, although her presence is nothing to brag about. She plays a wealthy writer of children's stories who is beleaguered by some decidedly grown-up fantasies, mostly having to do with her husband, a couple of former lovers, an enigmatic child (Catherine Harrison) and various manifestations of menace and death. When her husband packs her off to the countryside for a rest, the lady's predicament becomes even more woeful, as does Susannah York's performance, which gives way to a battery of twitches, groans and grimaces, interrupted...
...flag, no symbol, no offices. Its leaders are shadowy, constantly shifting and unknown. Members are drawn from all guerrilla groups and become known only when they are killed or captured. This of course may well be a self-serving defensive explanation to avoid Israeli retribution. Since they began to brag about operations against Israel, leaders of the rival Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine have fallen victim to mysterious attacks. One, Ghassan Kanafani, was blown to bits along with his niece, in Beirut in July, as he started his car. Israeli agents are suspected of planting the explosive...