Word: brags
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...There is not much to brag about here. Except the Bulldogs...
...from immigration to assimilation and finally to a resurgence of identity through the nation of Israel. There are anecdotes from the old country and stories about the rise from respectable poverty to even more respectable affluence. Goodkind relives his bar mitzvah and metamorphosis from yeshiva boy to "Vicomte de Brag," his pen name on the Columbia student paper. The tone and texture of these recollections are wearily familiar, a point that even the author seems to concede: "The reader has been at big wedding receptions, and if you picture as fancy a one as you ever...
There is not much to brag about here...
...agent, expelled from the U.S. in 1969 after two tours at the mission, liked to brag suggestively about little matters he had "cleared up." One Sunday at lunch on the New Jersey Palisades in late 1965, he could not stop talking about New York's great blackout. "All those shining towers," he said, gesturing at the Manhattan skyline, "they look so strong, so tall, but they're just a house of cards. A few explosions in the right places and do svidaniya (goodbye). We're only beginning to realize how vulnerable this country really is." No one commented. Even...
...forum, whatever it is, on the manhood, up against his." After his debate with Geraldine Ferraro, Bush told a longshoreman, "Yeah, we tried to kick a little ass last night." That was rather cross-grained machismo, since it is not really the code of the locker room to brag about kicking a woman around...