Word: blurted
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...below ex-King Carol of Rumania, Surits looked out on the white sands of Copacabana Beach. Politely he said that it reminded him of Russia's Black Sea beaches. As soon as Brazilian Foreign Minister João Neves da Fontoura had loudly and lengthily denied his undiplomatic blurt to New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Joseph Newman ("Russia is the greatest danger to the world"), Surits presented his credentials at palm-shaded, swan-graced Palácio Itamaraty, the Foreign Office. Pint-sized Surits beamed at pint-sized Neves da Fontoura...
...stuck for life with his equestrian boast (that he would ride the Emperor's white horse down the streets of Tokyo): he got a white wooden mount in Manhattan from members of the Military Order of the World Wars. Day before, Gossipist Leonard Lyons quoted his latest blurt, apropos the atomic bomb-that he would have preferred to lick Japan without it, conceded that it "did one good thing, though. It meant 100,000 dead Japs we'll never have to worry about...
...eyes moisten visibly when the men cheer his public appearances; he cannot make a smooth, cliche-packed speech of thanks, but is more likely to blurt (as he did after the first hit-run raids): "I've never been so damn proud of anybody...
...course of the contest the paratrooper's savage cockiness causes him to blurt out a crucial Russian secret - that the counterattacking Russians will cross a river at an "impossible" point by means of a night-built, underwater bridge. (Of the building and the crossing there are some operatically magnificent shots.) In the long run, however, stubborn shrewd ness triumphs over crafty arrogance...
...police, which seem to symbolize the murderer's urge to self-betrayal : murderers often defecate at the scene of the crime (detectives call it "the visiting card") and in some cases have been caught by chemical analysis of the feces; they usually return to the scene; they frequently blurt their knowledge of the murder to total strangers. In one famous case the urge to self-punishment went so far that the murderer, trying a noose with which he intended to hang a child who had witnessed the murder, fell and hanged himself...