Word: bluffe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...aged, this misanthropic Kipling-hardly at his best in writing about people-gave up complex characters for stock types, and then stock types for animals, ghosts and pure demonic forces. Thus the stereotype of the bluff chap with the pipe and the dog was replaced by a hypochondriac brooding upon visions of cancer and insanity, obsessed with ultimate darkness...
...Soviet side has rigidly resisted verification. There are many reasons: the traditional, and today senseless, spy-mania, the tendency to bluff and the desire to gain the advantage of surprise. The West must insist, with great firmness, on a better system of verification, including on-site inspection...
...raging rhetoric and rodomontade that are customary between Arabs and Israelis sometimes signify more bark than bite. Last week, as Cairo and Jerusalem were engaged in an elaborate game of diplomatic bluff, the rhetoric exploded again. Negotiations over a second-stage disengagement in Sinai hit snags that on the surface at least indicated the possibility of deadlock. But even as Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin was dismissing Egyptian proposals as unacceptable last week, he was also insisting that the talks must continue...
...Empty Bluff. In Cairo's view, the Israelis are stalling in order to keep negotiations churning on through 1976; in an election year, Washington is unlikely to lean heavily on Jerusalem to make any settlement that would displease American Jewish voters...
...Eilts, who apparently had no inkling of Fahmy's announcement, flew from Cairo to Washington the same day for a Kissinger briefing on the Secretary's talks with Rabin. Kissinger himself called the move "disturbing" and "extremely unfortunate." Israelis insisted that the Egyptian threat was an empty bluff by Cairo to increase Washington's pressure on Israel. In any case, Rabin told the Knesset, "Israel is not a country that makes a practice of accepting dictates." Rabin sent Israeli Ambassador Simcha Dinitz back to Washington to confer again with Kissinger on the two principal points still outstanding...