Word: brags
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...asked why the Texas billionaire was any more qualified to be President. "I don't claim that I am," Perot replied. "That's up to the people." Jennings prodded gently, "But surely you think you're qualified." Perot's response: "I'm not going to sit here and brag on myself," thus raising the question of why he was sitting there...
...They don't bankrupt people. They just give the winner something to brag about," Landry says...
...woman impersonating her on television was. Thin as a pinstripe, she nonetheless felt one Sara Lee cheesecake away from Weight Watchers. Once a lively writer who impersonated a Playboy Bunny to expose Hugh Hefner's cheesy idea of sex appeal and quipped that if men could menstruate they would brag about how long and how much, she had produced very little since her collection of essays, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, in 1983. Ms., the magazine she co-founded in 1972 and edited from crisis to crisis ever since, was spinning out of her control...
Because some men have been repulsed since sixth or seventh grade, when they first heard a peer "brag about his sexual prowess" and discuss pornography. Some men have tried, to the best of their ability, to treat women as women and also as equals...
...million citizens have no health insurance at all. Few among the rest of us are free from fear of losing our insurance or finding it insufficient. Costs are soaring -- over 12% of GNP, by far the world's highest -- yet our longevity and infant-mortality rates are nothing to brag about. But an hour's wait to pay $120 for a few minutes of a doctor's time nicely illustrates how our system combines some of the worst aspects of both capitalism and socialism...