Word: brags
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With the slightest prodding, photographers will brag about their exploits and their cunning in lengthy and often colorful detail. But some famous pictures, like Adams' shot of the Saigon execution are totally unplanned. Then working for the Associated Press, he went with an NBC crew to a pagoda where fighting had been reported. The South Vietnamese had just recaptured the building, but as the newsmen were leaving, they spotted a young prisoner being led away, his arms tied behind his back. An officer, whom they later identified as Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, suddenly appeared and reached...
...Higgins, Schwarz and her habitual food-run partner, next-door neighbor Spiro Lampros '85, are prototypes of the Harvard student he sees the most. "You get the people who come in and want to brag to me how much work they have, or how they're never going to do it again. They're procrastinators anyway, and they just don't want to go back...
...retains its cool, thanks to Lester Bangs and Mr. Christgau. This book is hardly comprehensive, nore objective, but it doesn't and couldn't try to be. He loves enough types of music--Reggae, Soul, Punk, and Rock and Roll--and listens to enough music (14 hours a day, brag his zealous press releases) to at least be accepted on his face value. Okay, so he went overboard and gave all the Ramones albums A's, and both NY Dolls Albums A-plusses. So what? He explains himself in a few sentences. There's non of the tortured delving into...
...Diversity is the hallmark of the Harvard/Radcliffe experience," the Colleges' admissions catalogue begins. While admissions officers love to brag about that hallmark, they sometimes encounter difficulties trying to maintain it, especially when it involves achieving racial diversity...
Aside from wealth, abundant natural resources, Texas Instruments and a lot of dirt, Texans really don't have much to brag about. But when a Texan tells you Blue Bell is the best commercially distributed ice cream in the world, that's not bragging. That's just plain fact...