Word: blarneyer
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...also think the American voters will have the good sense to recognize Mr. Nixon's description of the loss of Saigon as a 'tactical blunder' as so much election year blarney...
Luci & Lynda Bird. For all the troubles swirling about him, Johnson was still quick to bristle at charges that his Great Society is being sacrificed to foreign crisis. "It's just a bunch of blarney," he declared. "When I hear this argument that we can't protect freedom in Europe, Asia, or our own hemisphere and still meet our domestic problems, I think this is a phony argument. It's just like saying I can't take care of Luci because I have Lynda Bird...
...there is anything the Irish admire more than a first-class horseman, it's a chap with a tongue touched with blarney. And to have both in the same man, now there's a fine ambassador for the Americans to be sending. Of course, Raymond Guest, 58, noted Virginia horse breeder and financier, did warn them when he arrived last year that he "intended to be the kind of American you would like to see in your country." So it was no surprise when he showed up at the Dublin Horse Show astride his eight-year-old gelding...
...tanks and armored cars of the green-bereted Siliwangi Division and the tough R.P.K.A.D. paracommandos (comparable to the U.S. Special Forces). As the generals patiently shuttled back and forth to Bogor, Sukarno held them off with his celebrated command of mus-jawarah, the cerebral Javanese equivalent of blarney...
HOGAN'S GOAT. Ethnic memory is tapped as William Alfred evokes Irish character, customs and clout in Brooklyn at the turn of the century. Beneath the blarney and blather lies the story of the making and unmaking of an American politician...