Word: bluffer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jobs. Stormed Jed Johnson: "These patronage stories sound very much like Henderson propaganda for the purpose of bailing him out with the public and making him appear as a martyr. The present Price Administrator apparently enjoys his role as he poses as a bully and a bluffer, a self-inflated bureaucrat who evidently envisions himself as a dictator...
...Bluffer, however, was Hubertus J. van Mook. A big, burly, blond Dutchman, only 46 years of age, with big, strong hands and a sharp, broad mind and a sense of humor besides, he was everything the traditional negotiator is not. He opened every discussion with: "This is our last word," and every time he stuck...
Philosophy A and at least five additional courses are prerequisite to any attempts to wage intellectual combat with Mr. Russell on his home field of mathematical logic. His calm, waiting stare is enough to topple the confidence of the crassest bluffer that ever fooled a section...
...Dudley is an "all-arounder" whose thoroughness is not pedantic, whose energy succumbs to neither red tape nor his chronic arthritis. He is also a good bluffer when occasion demands. With precious few rounds of ammunition on his economy-stripped ships, when he was chief of staff to the Mediterranean Fleet in 1935 he cheekily told the Italians where to head...