Word: bragging
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Hawaii's plantation era, when everyone came from someplace else and pineapple and sugarcane workers needed to get along in order to survive in their new home. So it would be uncharacteristic, they say, for a true son of Hawaii to go to a big city like Chicago and brag about the sun-drenched beaches, tight family ways and tasty food of his home state. Instead, they say, someone like Obama would most likely try to fit in while sticking to the values of his birthplace. Hawaii state senator Clayton Hee, an early Obama supporter, is hardly surprised that Obama...
Just wait until these clueless parents go home and brag to all their friends about what a great school their kids go to and how dominant its athletic program...
...album, except replace Lil’ Wayne with Ludacris. With one touch of a magic button on the shades, we are transported to a techno-psychedelic dream world where, as usual, T-Pain is hanging at the bar and the strip club like he has no home. Usually singers brag about how all they do is show up anywhere—club, bank, or nursing home—and immediately attract five girls on each arm. But in this video, T-Pain gets real in confessing his awkward attempts to holla. Have you ever been in the VIP room...
...defined what it was to be modern. The U.S. was big shouldered and handsome, the U.S. wore nylons and lipstick, the U.S. enjoyed a level of prosperity of which others could only dream. In Manhattan '45, her love letter to New York, Jan Morris writes "The old brag biggest and finest in the nation more and more evolved into biggest and finest in the world. Battered and impoverished London, humiliated Paris, shattered Berlin, discredited Rome - the old capitals towards which, before the war, Americans had so often looked with sensations of diffident inferiority now seemed flaccid beside this prodigy...
...FactCheck.org important? You're asking me to brag here. Are we important? I don't know, but I am encouraged to see other news organizations doing the sort of thing that we do more aggressively. If we've had anything to do with that - providing an example or whatever - then I'm really pleased...