Word: bluster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Matter of Batting. In the midst of Russia's dangerous mixture of bluster and acknowledged technological performance, the free world can take considerable satisfaction from the fact that the U.S. Air Force is in command of a brilliant, unobtrusive West Pointer with a flair for understatement. Tommy White, 56, a tall, austere airman with a ramrod-back carriage, well knows the Russian danger, well knows the need to tighten and use the bomber force-in-being to best advantage while the U.S. brings in its missile force...
...leading actors were nearly as good as student drama can produce. The enormous Shakespearean bluster and kingly extravagance that so rarely come across in a younger actor are perfectly mastered by Mark Mirsky as the king. He is able to convey this extravagant emotion with a quality of real virility and passion that does not fall short of excellence...
Erudite, self-assured and sometimes petulant, Hailsham, a devout Tory of the "For Queen and Country" tradition, does not suffer fools gladly-and he includes as fools a wider group than do more prudent politicos. Outspoken to the point of bluster, courageous to the point of rashness, he sounded off from the Lords against nationalized industry, Socialism ("imposed equality"), in favor of capital punishment, against lowbrow radio and TV programs, and above all, for a "firm" British line in foreign affairs. After Suez he came into his own as the party's favorite orator, blurting openly what many Conservatives...
...just barely getting off the ground, is an imaginative response to the world's desire for rapid economic progress. But the President's foreign policy cannot be separated from that of his Secretary of State, and here the past four years can be chalked up as little but bluster, blunder, and an inability to see that the future requires change. Dulles' well-known verbal blunders have done a great deal to harm American prestige, but they do not fully account for the precarious position of this country's foreign power. What is demanded, and what the Eisenhower Administration has failed...
Wordiness was not the only common denominator of this year's party platforms. The Democratic platform had ripped heavily into the G.O.P. record, was studded with such words as "betrayal," "vote-buying," "bluster and bluff." But when the Democrats got right down to stating their objectives, they and the Republicans turned out to be in remarkable agreement in most areas. Only when they explained how they proposed to achieve their respective goals did the Republicans and Democrats demonstrate that there are still fundamental, if steadily narrowing, differences between them. Items...