Word: bluster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British marched out of India in 1948 with colors flying, pipes skirling, and every upper lip as stiff as Kitchener's the day the dervishes whirled and charged him at Omdurman. But all the pomp and bluster of yesterday were missing last week when the last British soldiers pulled out of another great outpost of Empire. Five days before the deadline set by the Anglo-Egyptian agreement, Brigadier John H. S. Lacey handed over the keys of his Suez Canal headquarters to Lieut. Colonel Abdullah Azouni of the Egyptian army and quietly led the last 91 of Britain...
...stronger language. He insisted that interposition implied 1) a state's right to nullify federal laws, 2) a state governor's right to call out state forces to defend states' rights. "Without these essential provisions," said Griffin, "there is no interposition." But Griffin's reckless bluster was not yet the tone of the South's leaders. The other three governors reflected the painful tension that racks serious Southerners who are unable to face the prospect of desegregation and who are reluctant to defy the authority of the U.S. The case of South Carolina...
...committee could detect no rigid pattern of Communist interrogation, and was often impressed by the inconsistencies of the Communist enemy. "Sometimes he showed contempt for the man who readily submitted to bullying. The prisoner who stood up to the bluster, threats and blows . . . might be dismissed with a shrug ..." Some of the P.W.s who appeased the Communists by giving them "biographical sketches" later found that the Communists used the documents against them, punishing them for "lying"; many of those who signed confessions were later informed that they were liable for new prosecution as war criminals...
...that new breed of managers: the nice guys. Like Brooklyn's Walter Alston and Boston's Pinky Higgins, he never felt the need for loudmouthed bluster. Slats was the man who was managing the St. Louis Browns in 1953, when they became the Baltimore Orioles, and he said out loud that he had a lousy ball club. He was fired for his honesty. "Defeatist," mumbled the Orioles' General Manager Arthur Ehlers, choosing a strange word to describe the skinny scrapper who had made himself "Mr. Shortstop" on the red-hot St. Louis Cardinals...
...Stop chiefly chronicles a raw, rambunctious young cowboy's courtship-which is virtually a kidnaping-of a soiled young Kansas City nightclub singer. Very slowly the clodhopper (Albert Salmi) discovers that an ounce of tenderness is worth a pound of bluster, while the audience simultaneously discovers that it is the bluster of a sexual tenderfoot. And the girl discovers that, though courted as though she were a punching bag, she is for once being thought of as though she were a lady...