Word: bluffs
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...Native Americans and Europeans that was to repeat itself for centuries to come. But for all his flaws and hidebound ways, Smith avoided all-out war with the natives during his tenure, believing, for the most part, that conflict could be managed with the right mix of bully and bluff...
...most analysts agree that threats of Serbia relapsing to the bad old days of nationalism and isolation are just a bluff, aimed at postponing the inevitable. Still, in the Balkans, worst-case scenarios have an unfortunate track record of coming true...
When asked how he would respond to someone who claimed poker was amoral, Warshauer answered, “I would stare them down. They would eventually crack, and I’d call their bluff...
...This bluff and vigorous Ford film, based on the Edwin O'Connor roman à clef about four-time Boston Mayor James Curley, winks at the chicanery involved in getting into office and staying there. Spencer Tracy, right, is Frank Skeffington, on his final run for a job he believes is his by divine right. Doing favors, making deals, smiting enemiesto Frank, that's just politics. Has anything changed in 50 years? The big-city machine the film elegizes may be gone, but the malady lingers...
...Even if you suspect that the threat's a crock, the real and imagined horrors of a briefcase-bully will send many of us wheedling for absolution just to stay out of court. We're cowards that way, shy about calling the bluff of those litigious little creeps who itch for a legal showdown over every petty spat...